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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 533

Get text followed by certain text

I need to get the text but only before the certain text ('---------------'). E.g. example of HTML code:

...
<p> This is correct text. Everything after it is wrong</p>
<p>---------------------</p>
<p><strong>This is wrong text</strong></p>
<p> This is wrong another text</p>
...

I'm trying to solve this with the next XPath expression:

/p/text()[normalize-space()][not(ancestor::p[contains(.,'---')])]

But unfortunately this doesn't work as expected.

Would be appreciate for the correct solution.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 70

Answers (1)

kjhughes
kjhughes

Reputation: 111491

This XPath will select the text of a p whose immediately following sibling contains ---:

//p[following-sibling::p[contains(.,'---')]][1]/text()

Upvotes: 2

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