DomDocument removeChild in foreach reindexing the dom

Question

I am trying to delete p tags with data-spotid attribute

        $dom = new DOMDocument();
        @$dom->loadHTML($description);         


        

Answer 1

( Assuming that the $dom contains the (DOM) paragraphs you need to filter out ). Let's try some good old JavaScript:

$ptag = $dom.all.tags("p");
$ptag = [].slice.call($ptag);
$i = 0; 
while($ptag[$i]){
'data-spotid' in $ptag[$i].attributes ? $ptag[$i++].outerHTML = "" : 0
}

NOTE: I'm using outerHTML to destroy unwanted elements to avoid calling its parent and relocating the node of interest we already have. Recent Firefox versions are finally supporting it (11+).MDN ref

I'm also using the brief all.tags() syntax for brevity; Firefox might not be supporting it yet, so you might want to fall back to 'getElementsByTagName()' call there.