[Greasemonkey] XPath Help: Selecting items before a tag within a span

Aaron Boodman boogs at youngpup.net
Mon Feb 12 15:53:14 PST 2007


> Here is my current xpath:
> //span[@class='posttext']/a[contains(@HREF, 'youtube.com/watch?v')]

//span[@class='posttext']/a[contains(@HREF, 'youtube.com/watch?v') and
not(preceding-sibling::hr)]

? (untested, but something like ought to work)

>
> Is it possible to only select the needed urls before the hr tag only? (there
> could be multiple youtube urls in a posttext span)
>
> TIA
> Rich
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