How to get innerHTML of DOMNode?

Compare this updated variant with PHP Manual User Note #89718:

<?php 
function DOMinnerHTML(DOMNode $element) 
{ 
    $innerHTML = ""; 
    $children  = $element->childNodes;

    foreach ($children as $child) 
    { 
        $innerHTML .= $element->ownerDocument->saveHTML($child);
    }

    return $innerHTML; 
} 
?> 

Example:

<?php 
$dom= new DOMDocument(); 
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$dom->formatOutput       = true;
$dom->load($html_string); 

$domTables = $dom->getElementsByTagName("table"); 

// Iterate over DOMNodeList (Implements Traversable)
foreach ($domTables as $table) 
{ 
    echo DOMinnerHTML($table); 
} 
?> 

Here is a version in a functional programming style:

function innerHTML($node) {
    return implode(array_map([$node->ownerDocument,"saveHTML"], 
                             iterator_to_array($node->childNodes)));
}

To return the html of an element, you can use C14N():

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHtml($html);
$x = new DOMXpath($dom);
foreach($x->query('//table') as $table){
    echo $table->C14N();
}