xPath - 你能从节点中删除逗号吗？

Question

I have an xPath query that grabs plaintext from a div like this

xpath->query("//div[@id='main']//span[@class='meta']/text()")

This query returns The text that I want,

Is there anyway that I can remove that comma within my query?

Thanks

EDIT:

Using Mad's code from below, my query now looks like this (I've replaced the , in the example with the word hello to make it a bit less confusing.)

$search_term = $xpath->query("translate('//div[@id='main']//span[@class='meta']/text()', 'hello', '')");

And I'm attempting to echo the query results like this:

foreach ($search_term as $st) { 
echo $st->nodeValue; }

The error I'm receiving is

Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in ... on line 50

Answer 1

You could use translate() to replace the , character with empty an string:

xpath->query("translate(//div[@id='main']//span[@class='meta']/text(), ',', '')")

Although, it could result in a trailing space if the comma was preceded or followed by a space in the text() node.

You could then use normalize-space() to remove leading/trailing whitespace:

xpath->query("normalize-space(translate(//div[@id='main']//span[@class='meta']/text(), ',', ''))")

Although, it will also normalize sequences of whitespace in the middle of the text into single spaces.

You could also use substring-before() to select the text preceding ,:

xpath->query("substring-before(//div[@id='main']//span[@class='meta']/text(), ' ,')")

However, if the string does not contain , then substring-before() will not return anything.