Getting the text portion of a node using php Simple XML

Question

Given the php code:

$xml = <<

This is a link
Title
with some text following it.
         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

$parser = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
echo html_entity_decode(strip_tags($parser->asXML()));

That's pretty much equivalent to:

$parser = simplexml_load_string($xml);
echo dom_import_simplexml($parser)->textContent;