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copied!<p>Working with PHP DOM is fairly straightforward, and is very similar to Javascript's DOM.</p> <p>Here are the important classes:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.domnode.php" rel="noreferrer"><strong>DOMNode</strong></a> — The base class for anything that can be traversed inside an XML/HTML document, including text nodes, comment nodes, and <strong>CDATA nodes</strong></li> <li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.domelement.php" rel="noreferrer"><strong>DOMElement</strong></a> — The base class for <strong>tags</strong>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php" rel="noreferrer"><strong>DOMDocument</strong></a> — The base class for documents. Contains the methods to load/save XML, as well as normal DOM document methods (see below).</li> </ul> <p>There are a few staple methods and properties:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.load.php" rel="noreferrer"><code>DOMDocument->load()</code></a> — After creating a new <code>DOMDocument</code>, use this method on that object to load from a file.</li> <li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.getelementsbytagname.php" rel="noreferrer"><code>DOMDocument->getElementsByTagName()</code></a> — this method returns a node list of all elements in the document with the given tag name. Then you can iterate (<code>foreach</code>) on this list.</li> <li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.domnode.php#domnode.props.childnodes" rel="noreferrer"><code>DOMNode->childNodes</code></a> — A node list of all children of a node. (Remember, a <strong>CDATA</strong> section is a node!)</li> <li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.domnode.php#domnode.props.nodetype" rel="noreferrer"><code>DOMNode->nodeType</code></a> — Get the <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/dom.constants.php" rel="noreferrer">type</a> of a node. CDATA nodes have type <strong>XML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE</strong>, which is a constant with the value <strong>4</strong>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.domnode.php#domnode.props.textcontent" rel="noreferrer"><code>DOMNode->textContent</code></a> — get the text content of any node.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Note</strong>: Your CDATA sections are malformed. I don't know why there is an extra <code>]]</code> in the first one, or an unclosed CDATA section at the end of the line, but I think it should simply be:</p> <pre><code><![CDATA[Aghia Paraskevi, Skiatos, Greece]]> </code></pre> <p><strong>Putting this all together we:</strong></p> <ol> <li>Create a new document object and load the XML</li> <li>Get all <code>Destination</code> elements by tag name and iterate over the list</li> <li>Iterate over all child nodes of each <code>Destination</code> element</li> <li>Check if the node type is <code>XML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE</code></li> <li>If it is, <code>echo</code> the <code>textContent</code> of that node.</li> </ol> <p><strong>Code:</strong></p> <pre><code>$doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->load('test.xml'); $destinations = $doc->getElementsByTagName("Destination"); foreach ($destinations as $destination) { foreach($destination->childNodes as $child) { if ($child->nodeType == XML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE) { echo $child->textContent . "<br/>"; } } } </code></pre> <p><strong>Result:</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Aghia Paraskevi, Skiatos, Greece<br> Amettla, Spain<br> Amoliani, Greece<br> Boblingen, Germany</p> </blockquote>

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