in reply to Process a HTML file to get information from it.
Depending on the surrounding HTML and how static your source is, you might be able to get by without the Parser.
Perhaps you could just use a regular expression in quick-but-dirty fashion like this:
Then your data might be in $1 and $2. What have you tried?/pdf.+?>(.+?)<.+span>(\d{9})<\/span>/;
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