Xpath To Select All Elements Between Two Headings?

Headline 1

some text

some more text

• list item 1
• list item 2

Solution 1:

This XPath,

//*[    preceding-sibling::h2[. = 'Headline 1'] andfollowing-sibling::h2[. = 'Headline 2']]

will select all elements between h2s with string values of 'Headline 1' and 'Headline 2':

<p>some text</p>
<p>some more text</p>
<ul>
<li>list item 1</li>
<li>list item 2</li>
</ul>
<p>more text</p>

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Andersson points out in the comments that OP wants the first h2 included in the selection.

Andersson's initial thought would work:

//h2[. = 'Headline 1'] |//*[    preceding-sibling::h2[. = 'Headline 1'] andfollowing-sibling::h2[. = 'Headline 2']]

Here's another way:

//*[self::h2[. = 'Headline 1']or (    preceding-sibling::h2[. = 'Headline 1'] 
        and following-sibling::h2[. = 'Headline 2']]

Or, probably the ideal way:

//h2[. = 'Headline 2']
    /preceding-sibling::*[not(following-sibling::h2[. = 'Heading 1'])]

because it avoids having to specify 'Heading 1' twice.

Solution 2:

What if try something like

//*[text()="Headline 1"]/following-sibling::*

Solution 3:

//h2[contains(.,'Headline 1')]//*

Will return every element below the header. You could further narrow it down with

//h2[contains(.,'Headline 1')]//p

for paragraph text, but that would not include the li elements.

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