<?php
$html = <<< LOL
<a class="js-publication" href="publication/247931167">
<span class="publication-title">An approach for textual authoring</span>
</a>
LOL;
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);
foreach ($xpath->query("//a[@class='js-publication']") as $sText){
echo $sText->textContent;
echo $sText->getAttribute('href');
}
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