Comment 1 for bug 172010

I would also like this feature, Ive had several situations when I wished for it.

Why is it invalid, is there already a way to do that?
Until now Id do it by duplicating the object and deleting all the nodes I didn't want, but it can be tedious if the path is complex (I usually need it when editing traced bitmap paths).

Paint bucket does something similar (new object out of the part of a path) but sometimes you want to do it for areas that aren't bound with path parts.