Selecting siblings between two nodes using XPath

Question

How would I select all the tables between the table whose id is header_completed and the first table after the header_completed one that has an align of center? Here is the

Answer 1

I believe this XPath expression selects the nodes you want:

//table[@class="header_completed"]/
    following-sibling::table[@align="center"][1]/
        preceding-sibling::table[
            preceding-sibling::table[@class="header_completed"]
        ]

First I navigate to the table with @class="header_completed".

From there I select the first following sibling table with @align="center".

From there I select all preceding sibling tables that have a preceding sibling which is the table with @class="header_completed".