Get contents of BODY without DOCTYPE, HTML, HEAD and BODY tags

Question

What I am trying to do is include an HTML file within a PHP system (not a problem) but that HTML file also needs to be usable on its own, for various reasons, so I need to know

Answer 1

Use a DOM parser. this is not tested but ought to do what you want

$domDoc = new DOMDocument();
$domDoc.loadHTMLFile('/path/to/file');
$body = $domDoc->GetElementsByTagName('body')->item(0);
foreach ($body->childNodes as $child){
    echo $child->C14N(); //Note this cannonicalizes the representation of the node, but that's not necessarily a bad thing
}

If you want to avoid cannonicalization, you can use this version (thanks to @Jared Farrish)