如何从字符串中删除“<a id="12" />”

Question

I have an xhtml string, and it contains:

<a id="8" />

The number is random each time. It does not have an href attribute, so maybe removing all <a> without href is an option? I want to remove those parts with PHP, what is my best approach?

I would like to use tidy, but I don't think it has an option to remove those tags.

If that is not possible, I believe preg_replace() with regex is my second best approach. However, I do not know the regex string to remove those parts.

Answer 1

I was able to fix it, by finding out why this piece of code was added to the XHTML string in the first place. I removed it, thereby solving the problem.