I try to use SimpleXML in combination with XPath to find nodes which contain a certain string.
<?php
$xhtml = <<<EOC
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Find me!</p>
<p>
<br />
Find me!
<br />
</p>
</body>
</html>
EOC;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xhtml);
$xml->registerXPathNamespace('xhtml', 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml');
$nodes = $xml->xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Find me')]");
echo count($nodes);
Expected output: 2 Actual output: 1
When I change the xhtml of the …