XPath to get markup between two headings

Question

I am trying to write a small application to extract content from Wikipedia pages. When I first thought if it, I thought that I could just target divs containing content with XPa

Answer 1

Yes, you're on the right track with XPath -- it's ideal for selecting parts of an XML document.

For example, for this XML,

   
Title A
   
Some Content
   
More Content
   
Title B

this XPath,

//div[preceding-sibling::h2 = 'Title A' and following-sibling::h2 = 'Title B']

will select this content,

Some Content
More Content

between the two h2 titles, as requested.

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Update to address OP's self-answer:

For this new XML example,

    
Summary
    
Paragraph
    

        
List1
        
List2
        
List3
    
    
Paragraph

    
Location
    
Paragraph

the XPath I provided above can easily be adapted,

//*[preceding-sibling::h2 = 'Summary' and following-sibling::h2 = 'Location']

to select this XML,

Paragraph
  

   
List1
   
List2
   
List3
    
Paragraph

as requested.