I have some paragraph nodes I'd like to truncate starting with the <br /> element within it. Given the code below at the bottom of the post, I'd like to find a way to just have it print, what's in a paragraph but then leave out or delete everything after a break. 

foo01
foo02
foo03

I could find the break itself with '//div/p/br[1]' but then how would I be able to have the script delete that and everything else following it within the parent paragraph element? 

for my $d ($root->findnodes($xpath))
{
    for my $dd ($d->findnodes('something'))
    {
        $dd->delete;
    }
    print $d->as_trimmed_text,qq(\n) if (defined($d->as_text));
}

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Here is the script so far, with data. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;

use strict;
use warnings;

my $root = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;
$root->parse_file(\*DATA)
    or die("Could not parse the data: $!\n");
$root->eof();

my $xpath = '//div/p';

for my $d ($root->findnodes($xpath))
{
    print $d->as_trimmed_text,qq(\n) if (defined($d->as_text));
}

$root->delete;

exit(0);

__DATA__

<div><p>foo01<br />bar01</p></div>

<div>
    <p>
    foo02
    <br />
    bar02
    </p>
</div>

<div>
    <p>
    foo03
    <br />
    bar03
    <br /
    baz03
    </p>
</div>

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In reply to Truncating an HTML node using XPaths in HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath by mldvx4

Title:
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and:  <code> code here </code>
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