Selectind DOM elements based on attribute content
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I have several types of <a>
in my document. I'd like to select only the <a>
whose title
attribute begins with the text "more data ..." like <a title="more data *">
For example given the markup below, I'd like to select the first and second <a>
, but skip the third because title
doesn't begin with more data
, and skip the 4th because <a>
doesn't even have a title attribute.
<a title="more data some text" href="http://mypage.com/page.html">More</a>
<a title="more data other text" href="http://mypage.com/page.html">More</a>
<a title="not needed" href="http://mypage.com/page.html">Not needed</a>
<a href="http://mypage.com/page.html">Not needed</a>
I'm using DOMXPath. How would my query look like?
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$q = $xpath->query('//a');
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