get DomXPath value by attribute “name”

Question

I'm trying to get CIK codes from EDGAR . They don't give id s to their elements, but they at least give a name .

In this case, when there's a result, the page will have a hidden with name="CIK" .

I've got the page in a DOMDocument and that in a DomXPath . How do I get the value of that field?

Many thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Simple once you wind your way through the docs.

$CIK = $finder->query("//hidden[@name='CIK']");

Oh, I wouldn't use that though. Their html is nothing but a mess and gave errors all over the place.

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Use this instead.