XPath: get all nodes until the first occurrence of an element ? - dom

How can I get all the nodes until reaching a specific element ? currently I'm using:
br/following-sibling::node()[following-sibling::img]
This is just an example, I want to get all the nodes after the <br> tag until the first occurrence of an <img> tag, but this code won't stop until the last <img> tag.
To workaround this issue I started from the image tag:
img[position()=1]/preceding-sibling::node()[preceding-sibling::br]
This is working, but also if I have multiple <br> tags it won't stop until the last one.
So how can I get all the nodes until the first occurrence of an element ?
I already searched the other questions, but the answers try to give another solution specific to the provided markup.

Try to tell how many img you want to be really following (in your case all but one):
br/following-sibling::node()[following-sibling::img[count(img)-1]]

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The xpath of the element is //div[#id='mif-tree-6']/span/span[3].
You can use xpath for it for example. Like:
//div[#id='mif-tree-6']//span[contains(text(),'your_text_here')]
UPDATE
Please provide an example of your html. It is possible to find a parent of your element with xpath and after that to find all the childs. For example your html =
<div id='lol'>
<div>first_item</div>
<div>second_item</div>
<div>third_element</div>
</div>
You get an array of elements with xpath =
//div[contains(text(),'first_')]/../div
So you can do something like:
click | //div[contains(text(),'first_')]/../div[2]
BUT if there are a lot of brothers-elements to find by text of one sibling it will be necessary to use loop to get every of them.
Once again. If you will provide full information about what are you doing and an example of your html it will be much easier to suggest.

How to auto-update matching html/xml tag in Code Mirror

I really like how Visual Studio html editor updates the matching tag. Example:
<h2>Header</h2>
If we replace <h2> opening tag with <h3>, then the closing tag should change automatically to </h3>. This should happen as we type.
I'm trying to implement this on my own, but no luck so far. I thought that matchtags addon would be a good starting point, but it stops working if tag names do not match.
Also, I noticed that xml mode marks closing tag as error on tag name mismatch, but I'm not sure how to use this to update the closing tags.
I would appreciate any help from more experienced CodeMirror users.
Thanks
So once the edit has been done, you no longer have the information needed to find the matching tag (which is why the matchtag addon can't help anymore). A good solution might be to track the current matching tag when editing starts (when the cursor is in a tag name) by using the CodeMirror.findMatchingTag function exported by the addon/fold/xml-fold.js file. Then, on "change" events that look like local editing inside the tag name (i.e. their start and end are inside the tag name), immediately follow up by modifying the matching tag.
add matchtags.js, xml-fold.js
config : matchTags: {bothTags: true}

How can I get the anchor (#tag) from an <a> link in tritium?

I am trying to get the anchor tag from an anchor element link in the page eg
<a href="/page#reviews">
Is it possible to access the href so I can isolate #reviews and use it elsewhere in my Tritum script?
Thanks!
Yes, it's possible, using a two step process.
First, you can grab the value of the href attribute using the fetch() function.
Then, working on the isolated string, you can use regular expressions to replace all the characters that occur in front of the hash/pound sign (#) with a blank.
Here's an example using the Tritium Tester: http://tester.tritium.io/52503bcbe166ca7affa4944d90aae39808c8cd8e.
Note: This assumes that everything after the first # sign in the href attribute is what you're looking for.

Does anyone know the location of detailed documentation covering the use of watir with html tags such as li ul td to navigate the DOM?

I have encountered unexpected results from the following code.
I'm getting -list- values from the -unordered list- located after the one I target
with "Employee_error_list"
why doesn't the response confine itself to the content
between the -unordered-list- and /-unordered-list- ?
theList = browser.ul(:id, "Employee_error_list")
theList.lis.each do |li|
puts li.text
end
To answer the question about documentation
The list type elements you mention are ElementCollection objects.
The best documentation I've found is the Watir-Webdriver RDoc Documentation.
A list of these can be found here.
A full list of elements supported by Watir is here
You can traverse an ElementCollection by using the code example you give:
theList = browser.ul(:id, "Employee_error_list")
theList.lis.each do |li|
puts li.text
end
As far as why the elements returned are not confined to the ul you specify, I'm not sure without seeing an example of the page HTML. The way you are doing it should work, but if you're seeing unexpected behavior it could be a bug.

Customizing single entry templates in ExpressionEngine (1.6.x)

This is either very annoying or very embarrassing. I've set up most of my blog, but I can't figure out where or how the heck I set up single entry templates as opposed to the section/weblog containing them. I just can't find information on how to do it for the life of me.
This is especially important, because I want to define the canonical link for all entries, since ExpressionEngine links to entries in all kinds of ways.
So, the case is that I have a Blog section/weblog with an index working as the front page for mydomain.com. This lists all my entries as you would imagine a regular blog to do. The problem arises when I need to customize the code for the single entries' links.
If you have a template set up already which is showing a multitude of entries and you want a single entry page for each entry then what you need to do is this :
{exp:channel:entries
channel="default_site"
sort="asc"
disable="member_data|pagination|categories"}
{title}
{/exp:channel:entries}
Then in the template shown above by template_group/template_name (please change those to whatever your template group and template names actually are ;-) ) you will place this code :
{exp:channel:entries
channel="default_site"
limit="1"
dynamic="yes"
sort="asc"
disable="member_data|pagination|categories"}
{title}
{/exp:channel:entries}
This will then show you just the one entry as you will have used the {url_title_path="template_group/template_name"} in the first channel entries tag above which would basically create a URI something like this :
http://www.example.com/template_group/template_name/url_title_of_my_posted_entry
On the second (template_group/template_name) single entry template page it will see the URL title and use this to filter down the channel entries tag to just that one entry.
Hope that helps a bit.
Best wishes,