使用php DOM api删除元标记时出现问题

Question

$html = new DOMDocument();
           $html->loadHTMLFile($filename);

           $meta = $html->getElementsByTagName("meta");


           foreach($meta as $oldmeta_tags)
           {

               $parent = $oldmeta_tags->parentNode;
               $parent->removeChild($oldmeta_tags);

           }
         echo "<br>Number of bytes stored = ".$html->saveHTMLFile($filename);
           $result[] = file_get_contents($filename);

Some of the meta tags are removed and some are not. please help what i am doing wrong

Answer 1

When you use foreach to iterate over the DOMNodeList and remove an element, you are changing the DOMNodeList content, so nodes will be skipped. You have to iterate backwards:

$nodes = $dom->getElementsByTagName('meta');
for ($i = $nodes->length - 1; $i >= 0; $i--) {
    $nodes->item($i)->parentNode->removeChild($nodes->item($i));
}