XPath to select between two HTML comments is not working?

Question

I\'m trying to select some content between two HTML comments, but having some trouble getting it right (as seen in \"XPath to select between two HTML comments?\"). There seems t

Answer 1

If you are interested in the first pair of comments, you could start with looking for the first comment:

//comment()[.=' begin content ']/following::*[not(preceding::comment()[.=' end content '])]

I.e.:

//comment()[1][.=' begin content ']           <-- look for first suitable comment
    /following::*                             <-- take all following nodes
         [not(preceding::comment()[.=' end content '])] <-- satisfying condition there is no preceding "end comment"