Get the text content of a node, but ignore child nodes

Question

  a
   b 

both $foo->textContent and $foo->nodeValue return a

Answer 1

Try this code

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML('abbar');
$foos = $doc->getElementsByTagName('foo');
foreach($foos as $v){
   echo $v->firstChild->wholeText.'
';
}

The firstChild property of DOMNode returns a DOMText object as there is a "text node" before in first