Parsing custom tags/markup and blocks

[Anon]

I'm looking for a SMART way to parse custom tags out of a HTML document (string). The tags will have the basic XHTML format.

<tag attribute="value"/>
<tag attribute="value>stuff including HTML</tag>

What I want end up with the attributes & values of the tags and the content "between" the tags. I know I can do this using regexp, but I don't know it very well, and the learning process gives constant headaches...

Some of you have probably done this before, and can tell me if I'm stuck with regexp. Is there a more efficient (easy 🙂 way of producing this result? Any pointers to examples?

[btubalinal]

why not just parse the file as if it was xml? then you can use expat or domxml and grab the tags and attributes you need.

expat

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php

DOM XML

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.domxml.php

[squashee]

Thanx, sound like a reosonable way, but i guess it means the source has to be well formed XHTML. I'm unsure about one thing though; can i get the "contents" of one node in text form, including the tags?