how i can getting xpath address of a string in html code?

[mikhak]

Hi

i want know how i can getting a xpath address
of a string in html code. for example i want finding xpath of YES in this html code :

<div><div>
<div><div>
   <div>
      <p>NO</p>
        <div>
           <p>a text</p>
        </div>
   </div>
</div>
<div>
   <div>
      <p>YES</p>
        <div>
           <p>b text</p>
        </div>
   </div>
</div></div>
</div></div>

i used the http://php.net/manual/en/domnode.getnodepath.php but thats only work with tag name and not working with a word or text searching in a string.

i want getting like this result finally :

/html/body/div/div/div/div[2]/div/p

how i can doing like that ?

and is it possible doint that with php simple_html_dom parser ?

Thanks.

[sneakyimp]

that function DOMNode::getNodePath works for any DOMNode, you just have to locate the node for which you want the path.

You could use DOMDocument::getElementById or DOMDocument::getElementsByTagName to locate all the <p> nodes and then check their contents for the text string you are after. Once you find some DOMNode that contains the text you want, you can output getNodePath for it.

$html = trim(file_get_contents("foo.html"));
$search_string = "YES";


$dom = new DOMDocument("1.0", "utf-8");
$dom->loadHTML($html)
  or die("could not load html");;
$p_tags = $dom->getElementsByTagName("p");
foreach ($p_tags as $p_tag) {
    if (preg_match("/" . preg_quote($search_string) . "/", $p_tag->nodeValue)) {
        echo "found search string in " . $p_tag->getNodePath() . PHP_EOL;
    }
}