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Search for the first instance of an element only



require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

doc = Hpricot(open('http://www.rubyinside.com/test.html'))
puts doc.search("h1").first.inner_html


list = doc.at("ul")
list.search("li").each do |item|
  puts item.inner_html
end








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