In simple terms, let's suppose you have the following xml structure:

<TEXT>Well, I need some help as you <CUSTOMTAG>can</CUSTOMTAG> see.</TEXT>

When extracting the text of this node in PHP with strip_tags(), I am not getting the content of tags.

First step:

What I want to do, is to extract and thus have the following string:

"Well, I need some help as you can see."

Second step:

I would also like to convert the <CUSTOMTAG> and </CUSTOMTAG> to something else, like <e> and </e> for example, and finally have the following string:

"Well, I need some help as you <e>can</e> see."

I would appreciate only tested and working code.

Thanks in advance!

Kind Regards