Looping through list elements of an unordered list using xpath

Question

I want to display the list elements of the ul but not the last one. I have used DOM nut it takes a long time.. Can Someone please give me the Xpath expression to solve this. Please Provide the whole solution code.

 $doc = new DOMDocument();  
    @$doc->loadHTMLFile($sel_image['snapdeal_content']);  
    $divs = $doc->getElementsByTagName('ul');  
    foreach($divs as $div) {  
    if ($div->getAttribute('class') == 'key-features') {  
        $li = $div->getElementsByTagName('li');  
        for($j=0;$j<$li->length-1;$j++){  
         echo "->".$li->item($j)->nodeValue;  
         echo "<br />";  
            }  

        }  

    }

Asking for "Please Provide the whole solution code" is like saying "do my work"... — Marcus Rickert, Jun 13 '14 at 11:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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Try this excerpt to replace the for-loops in your solution. The $li array should contain all n-1 <li> elements of all <ul> enumerations in the document.

$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$query = '//ul[@class = "key-features"]/li[position() < last()]';
$li = $xpath->query($query);

Also see http://www.php.net/manual/en/domxpath.query.php and XSL for-each: how to detect last node? .

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Jun 13 '14 at 11:49

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it says "Object of class DOMElement could not be converted to string". – Manoj Majumdar Jun 13 '14 at 18:14
Thanks 4 the demo.. it works.. I have used evaluate instead of query in xpath.. and it gives me the results.. :) – Manoj Majumdar Jun 14 '14 at 05:54
@JakeGould Please post your answer that you have provided in the link so that i can give you the credit. – Manoj Majumdar Jun 14 '14 at 06:10

Looping through list elements of an unordered list using xpath

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