Neat. That's close but takes the first part of the node, and only the first part of the node, not necessarily all of the pieces preceeding a <br /> element. Consider foo2a in the following example. 

#!/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)) 
{
    my @line = $d->content_list;
    s/^\s+|\s+$//g for @line;
    $d->replace_with($line[0],qq(\n));
}

print $root->as_trimmed_text,qq(\n);

$root->delete;
    
exit(0);

__DATA__

<div><p>foo00 

bar00</p></div>

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

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

<div>
    <p>
    <a href="foobar01">foobar02</a>
    foo02a
    <br />
    bar02a
    </p>
</div>

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

<div>
    <p>
    <em>foo04</em>
    <br />
    <strong>bar04</strong>
    <br />
    <em>baz04</em>
    </p>
</div>

<div>
    <p>
    <em>foo05</em>
    </p>
    <p>bar05
    <br />
    <em>baz05</em>
    </p>
</div>

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I am trying many experiments with $d->content_list. I suppose it would be possible to extract the node as a hash and then loop through it eliminating the <br /> element and everything after it.

In reply to Re^4: Truncating an HTML node using XPaths in HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath by mldvx4
in thread Truncating an HTML node using XPaths in HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath by mldvx4

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