Find all nodes on specific level

[forthrin]

Given an unordered list with multiple levels (lists within lists), how does one find only the list elements only on the first level? (Or at any given level.) html.css('li') will find all list elements on all levels, and it seems there is no CSS rule to stop cascading.

[flavorjones]

@forthrin I generally reach for XPath queries if I'm doing something more complicated than a tag name or an attribute.

Try doc.xpath("//li[not(ancestor::li)]") and if that doesn't do what you want, please provide a sample input and your expected output?

[forthrin]

Yep, that works. Just wondered if there was a CSS way to do it. Thanks!