I am trying to exclude and include following xpaths in the existing xpath, not quite sure how I can do it
//exclude -> //*[#id="ires"]/ol/li[6]/div/a[1]/img
//include -> //*[#id="ires"]/ol/li[4]/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/h3/a/#href
add to below xpath
$nodes = $xpath->evaluate('//*[#id="ires"]/ol/li['.$k.']/h3/a/#href');
You can surely include result by using pipe:
//*[#id="ires"]/ol/li['.$k.']/h3/a/#href | //*[#id="ires"]/ol/li[4]/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/h3/a/#href
I can't understand how what you're trying to exclude ends up in your results in the first place.
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I have the following XML -
<d><m:properties xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices">
<d:AllTexts/>
<d:BomFlag/>
<d:OrderNumber>9489</d:OrderNumber>
<d:LineNumber>000000</d:LineNumber>
<d:VcFlag>Y</d:VcFlag>
<d:PricingFlag/>
<d:TextType>H</d:TextType>
<d:TextId>ZC01</d:TextId>
<d:TextLineNo>1</d:TextLineNo>
<d:TextLine>ecom header text 1</d:TextLine>
and trying to retrieve the TextLine nodelist as based on TextId = ZC01 -
<TextLine>ecom header text1</TextLine>
when I applied the xpath as --> //m:properties[d:TextId = 'ZC01']/d:TextLine
I get the output as -
<d:TextLine xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices">ecom header text 1</d:TextLine>
how can I remove the prefix and namespace? I tried using local-name(), but that didn't work
May be used it wrong way.
Thank you for your help!
Thanks
Sugata
XPath is a selection language: it can only retrieve nodes that are actually there, it can't change them in any way. If the selected element has a prefix and namespace in the original, then it will have a prefix and namespace in the result.
However, you need to distinguish what the XPath selects (a node) from the way it the result is displayed. This depends on the application that is evaluating the XPath. The two popular ways of displaying a node selected by an XPath expression are (a) by serialising the node as XML (which is what we see in your case), and (b) by showing a path to the selected node, such as /d/m:properties/d:TextLine. You haven't told us how you are evaluating the XPath expression or displaying its result, and you may have options here.
But perhaps you should consider XSLT or XQuery, which (unlike XPath) allow you to construct new XML that differs from your original.
In Ruby/Capybara, I tried searching multiple(two) locators(css) in a single find query and found that it automatically search both of them and perform the action on the locator which is present on page.
Ex-
find("css1","css2").set "ABC"
I observed that while running the script, at run time it search for both the locators and will perform the action on the one which is present on page.
However, When I tried the same logic using xpath, it dont work and throw element not found error or invalid selector(one xpath is present on page).
ex-
find(:xpath,"xpath1","xpath2").set "ABC"
Can anyone please help how we can do it for xpath also in ruby capybara.
The example you show of find("css1","css2").set "ABC" won't actually do anything with the "css2" argument passed and, in the current version of Capybara, will actually emit a warning about unused parameters. What will work would be
find("css1, css2").set("ABC")
because it's using the grouping comma which will find items matching either css1 or css2. In XPath you can do that with the union operator | which will return elements that match xpath1 or xpath2
find(:xpath, "xpath1 | xpath2").set("ABC")
Am automating things using Selenium. Need your help to handle Dynamic Xpath as below:
Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//[#id='INQ_2985']/div[2]/tr/td/div/div[3]/div")).click();
As above INQ_2985 changes to 2986,2987,2988 etc during each run
HTML CODE:
< div> class="context-menu-item-inner" style="background-image:url(../images/productSmall.png);">Tender Assignment < /div>
Tried different combinations as below but with no success:
// Driver.findElement(By.name("//input[#name='Tender Assignment']")).click();
// Driver.findElement(By.className("context-menu-item-inner")).click();`
Can you help me on this.
you can try using contains() or starts-with() in xpath,
above xpath can be rewritten as follows,
Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[starts-with(#id,'INQ')]/div[2]/tr/td/div/div[3]/div")).click();
if you can post more of your html, we can help improve your xpath..
moreover using such long xpath's is not recommended, this may cause your test to fail more often
for example,if a "new table data or div" is added to the UI, above xpath will no longer be valid
you should try and use id, class or other attributes to get closer to the element your trying to find
i personally recommend using cssSelectors over xpath
you can use many methods,
use implicity wait;
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(#id,'select2-result-label-535')]").click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'select2-result-label-535')]").click();
Good to use Regular expression
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(#id,'INQ_')]")
Note: If you have single ID with name starts from INQ_ then you can take action on the element . If a bunch of ID then you can extract as a List<WebElements> and then match with the specific text of the element ( element.getText().trim() =="Linked Text" and if it matched then take action. You can follow other logic to traverse and match.
you can use css -
div.context-menu-item-inner
Use this xpath:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.context-menu-item-inner").click();
The best choice is using full xpath instead of id which you can get easily via firebug.
e.g.
/html/body/div[3]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[1]
if your xpath is varying
Ex: "//*[#id='msg500']" , "//*[#id='msg501']", "//*[#id='msg502']" and so on...
Then use this code in script:
for (int i=0;i<=9;i++) {
String mpath= "//*[#id='msg50"+i+"']";
driver.findElement(By.xpath(mpath)).click();
}
I'm trying to find some way to merge the result of two xpath queries with the same prefix.
Say: /inventory/product/itemNumber | /inventory/product/itemName
I'm looking for something like /inventory/product/(itemNumber | itemName) (the order of the output is irreverent for me).
Basically, I'm trying to find a way not to write the long prefix twice.
Thanx!
The way to accomplish this is the following:
/inventory/product/*[self::itemNumber or self::itemName]
I'm using Nokogiri to parse a large XML file. Say I've got the following structure:
<menagerie>
<penguin>Pablo</penguin>
<penguin>Mortimer</penguin>
<bull>Ferdinand</bull>
<aardvark>James Cornelius Madison Humphrey Zophar Handlebrush III</aardvark>
</menagerie>
I can count the non-penguins like this:
xml.xpath('//menagerie//*[not(penguin)]').length // 2
But how do I get a list of the tags, like this? (The exact format isn't important; I just want to visually scan the non-penguins.)
bull
aardvark
Update
This gave me the list I wanted - thanks Oded and TMN and delnan!
xml.xpath('//menageries/*[not(penguin)]').each do |node|
puts node.name()
end
You can use the name() or local-name() XPath function.
See the examples on zvon.
I know it's a bit outdated but you should do: xml.xpath('//meagerie/*[not(penguin)]/name()') as the expression. Note the slash, not the dot. This is how you call methods on the current node in XPath.