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in reply to Re^4: Truncating an HTML node using XPaths in HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath
in thread Truncating an HTML node using XPaths in HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath

You can test each item in content_list to see if it is a <br> tag: 
for my $d ($root->findnodes($xpath)) {
    my @line = $d->content_list;
    my @truncated;
    for my $line (@line) {
        if (ref $line) {
            last if $line->tag eq 'br';
        }
        push(@truncated,$line);
    }
    $d->replace_with(@truncated);
}

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