Extracting URL from malformed anchor tag

[tikki]

I am trying to create an RSS feed for my school's newspaper via the PHP5 DOM support. I main page from their website around 1am via curl and then run HTML tidy on it to clean it up.

Once clean, I use PHP to extract the href attribute as the <link> tag for the RSS feed. The problem I am having is setting a title. Unfortunately, no one on my school's paper knows what a "title" attribute is, so I can't use the same method I used for getting the URL.

how can i go about getting the value between the <a></a> tags? here is the relevant code I have so far.

<?php
	foreach ($params as $param) {	
		if (!substr_compare($param -> getAttribute('href'), $strValue, 0, $strLength, true)) {
			echo "<item>\n";
			echo "\t\t\t<title>" . "nothing here yet" . "</title>\n";
			echo "\t\t\t<link><![CDATA[http://www.purdueexponent.com" . trim($param -> getAttribute('href')) . "]]></link>\n";
			echo "</item>\n";			
		}
	}
?>

[tikki]

just an update, i tried to use preg_match, but then realized it wanted a string and DOM is spitting objects at me. So much for that idea.