Say I have the following UL:
<ul>
<li>barry</li>
<li>bob</li>
<li>carl</li>
<li>dave</li>
<li>roger</li>
<li>steve</li>
</ul>
I need to grab all the LIs between bob & roger. I can grab everything after bob with //ul/li[contains(.,"bob")]/following-sibling::li
, and I can grab everything before roger with //ul/li[contains(.,"roger")]/preceding-sibling::li
. The problem is when I try to combine the two, I end up getting extra results.
For example, //ul/li[contains(.,"bob")]/following-sibling::li[contains(.,"roger")]/preceding-sibling::li
will of course get everything before roger, instead of ignoring the items before bob.
Is there a way to chain these two xpaths together?