how to get content of an element with HTML nodes? - php

Question

I need to get the content of an element and place that content into another element. I use createTextNode to append that content as a child to the target element.
As I append it as text node, < and > is converted into < and >. How can I append that content without conversion?
For example:
<li id="fn1">
<div>
<a>some text
</a>
</div>
</li>
Expected output:
<p>
<div>
<a>some text
</a>
</div>
</p>
But my output is like,
<p>
<div>
<a>some text</a>
</div>
</p>
my code
$ch=dom->createElement("p");
$li=$xp->query("//li[contains(#id, 'fn')]");
foreach($li as $liv) {
$linodes = $liv->childNodes;
$pvalue="";
foreach ($linodes as $lin) {
$pvalue.=$dom->saveXML($lin);}
$ch->appendChild($dom->createTextNode($pvalue)); }
I have tried,
$ch->appendChild($dom->createTextNode(htmlspecialchars_decode($pvalue))); but same output

Answer 1

If you want to
move a node within the same document: remove that node via DOMNode::removeChild and append the return value of that function via DOMNode::appendChild to its new parent node.
copy the node to a new location within the same document, make a deep clone of the node via DOMNode::clone the node and append it.
transfer the node to another document, import that node to the new document via DOMDOcument::importNode and then append it to its new parent.