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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Apr 18, 2023 1 min read [\#data-parsing](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/data-parsing) [\#xpath](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/xpath) 

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To select an element that is between two known elements in XPath we have several options. Let's see these few interactive examples:

1. If we can identify an anchor element we can restrict our selection using `preceding-sibling` or `following-sibling`:

&lt;article&gt; &lt;p&gt;ignore&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;ignore&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;anchor&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;select&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;select&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;select&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;title2&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;ignore&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;ignore&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/article&gt; Above we select all `<p>` elements that have the first preceding `<h2>` element with text `anchor`.

2. If we know the count of unique preceding or following elements we can use `count()`:

&lt;article&gt; &lt;p&gt;ignore&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;ignore&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;anchor&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;select&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;select&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;select&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;title2&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;ignore&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;ignore&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/article&gt; Here, we select all `<p>` elements that have exactly one preceding `<h2>` element. Element counting is less reliable than using an anchor element but is often much easier to implement.

XPath provides a lot of flexibility in selecting elements as we can navigate the HTML tree in every direction and match elements by any attribute.
For more on XPath, see our [XPath introduction tutorial](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/parsing-html-with-xpath)



 

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