in reply to Extracting HTML content between the h tags

Something like this (just for first ps): 
my @nodes = $p->findnodes('//h2[2]/preceding-sibling::p[preceding-sibl
+ing::h2[1]]');

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Re^2: Extracting HTML content between the h tags
by vagabonding electron (Curate) on Aug 05, 2012 at 14:22 UTC
    Thank you a lot! I did not know this syntax.
    One more question if I dare :-)
    In about 10 pages the last h2-tag is missing, so that I used the following workaround: 
    my @solution_2 = $content->findvalues( './h2[4]/preceding-sibling::*' 
+);
unless ( @solution_2 )
{
   @solution_2 = $content->findvalues( '//hr/preceding-sibling::*' );
}

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    I tried the same with your syntax as: 
    @solution_2 = $content->findvalues( '//hr/preceding-sibling::p[precedi
+ng-sibling::h2[3]]' );

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    but I get an uninitialized value only.
    I understood the syntax so: "search the siblings but stop if the tag in brackets appears". Is this correct? If so, what am I doing false with the above attempt?
    Spasibo!
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      According to your HTML preceding-sibling for hr will be div tag but not p tag... So this code will find all ps after last h2: 
      $p->findnodes('//h2[4]/following-sibling::p');

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      Or (more flexible): 
      $p->findnodes('//h2[last()]/following-sibling::p');

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        Thank you very much!
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