SimpleXML -- Strip CDATA Tags (or embed HTML markup in XML) [closed]

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I've just recently begun learning XML in the context of PHP and Javascript, and I've encountered a problem.

So the issue is I want to put HTML markup within the XML, and then be able to extract this via PHP and embed the HTML in a different 开发者_StackOverflow中文版file that's reading the XML with SimpleXML. I'm echoing it with something along the lines of

echo $child->asXML();

However, of course the CDATA tags are still there and it doesn't work. So, my question is, is there either a way to A. embed HTML markup in a different way that is ignored by the XML parser but can be used in an HTML document, or B. a way to strip the CDATA tags from the code?

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Just had to reload the string in the XML parser, but excluding CDATA.

echo simplexml_load_string($child->asXML(), null, LIBXML_NOCDATA)

Don't mind me.

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The CDATA tags should disappear if you use the nodeValue property instead of asXML().

Something like

echo $child->nodeValue;

should do the job.