This may seem a bit excessive, but it's a good use-case for XSLT:
$xslt = <<<XML
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" /></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="div">
<li>
<xsl:if test="@*[name()='class' and contains(., 'active')]">
<xsl:attribute name="class">active</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
</li>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
XML;
It uses the identity rule and then overrides handling for <div>
, adding a class="active"
for nodes that have such a class name.
$xsl = new XSLTProcessor;
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->loadXML($xslt);
$xsl->importStyleSheet($doc);
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$html = <<<HTML
<div class="active make_link">1</div>
<div class="make_link digit"><a href="">2</a><div>test</div></div>
<div class="make_link digit"><a href="">3</a></div>
HTML;
$doc->loadHTML($html);
echo $xsl->transformToDoc($doc)->saveHTML();