$ cat junk.html
<ul><li>The following Host Names were requested from a host database:<
+/li>
<ul>
<li>192.5.5.241</li>
.
.
.

</ul></ul>
$ cat jonk.xsh
open --format html "junk.html";
# ls --indent /;
for //ul {
    pwd;
    for ./li {
        pwd;
        print text();
    };
    echo;
};
echo;

$ xsh -q jonk.xsh
/html/body/ul
/html/body/ul/li
The following Host Names were requested from a host database:

/html/body/ul/ul
/html/body/ul/ul/li
192.5.5.241

[download]

See also xpather.pl/htmltreexpather.pl which can give you paths to start with, and all the links here Re: Retrieve select information from HTML, they're examples(for tree-xpath and others)/walkthroughs/tutorials ... XML::XSH2/https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/XML-XSH2/XSH2.pod#open,

In reply to Re: question about lookaheads and threatexpert/html parsing by Anonymous Monk
in thread question about lookaheads and threatexpert/html parsing by ejc1

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