XPath select all elements between two specific elements

Question

I have a following xml:

    
    
text
    
text
    
text
    
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Answer 1

I think there's a much simpler and probably faster solution: you want all preceding siblings of the second divider that have at least one preceding sibling divider:

/doc/divider[2]/preceding-sibling::p[preceding-sibling::divider]

It gets a bit more complex, of course, if you want to find the paras between the second and third dividers: then you want something more like Daniel Haley's solution.