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    <p>I've got a php file that takes an xml file (generated by an outside source) and reformats it with CSS &amp; HTML. A number of the XML tags are things I don't want to see in the final version, so I have them hidden. The end result is something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;div style="display: none"&gt; content i don't want to see &lt;/div&gt; content I do want to see. &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Is there a way I can take the resulting html file as it's displayed in the browser window, </p> <pre><code>content I do want to see. </code></pre> <p>…and save that as a text file? I want it to ignore all the hidden <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> tags and only save what can otherwise be selected and copied by the user.</p> <p>I've looked around for an answer to this but I'm not even really sure what I'm looking for or how to search it.</p> <p>I've also tried this:</p> <pre><code>ob_start(); file_put_contents('filename.htm', ob_get_contents()); ob_end_flush(); </code></pre> <p>… but that's doesn't solve it. I have a number of tags in the outputted test (<code>&amp;gt;</code> etc) that need to be saves as they are displayed, and <code>ob_get_contents()</code> takes the page's source code, not the displayed version.</p> <p>This matters because the outputted page is also PHP that has been generated based on other factors, so I need to use html unicode values to keep the $ signs and quotes from messing up the source PHP.</p> <p>I hope that was clear. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.</p>
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    1. COThere are many ways that things may or may not be visible in a browser. What you essentially want is to have the entire site interpreted by a complete browser engine and retrieve the version "as seen by a human" afterwards. Honestly, there must be a better solution to solve whatever you're trying to solve.
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    2. CONot as "seen by a human" per se, but more as seen as it would be copied and pasted into Notepad.
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