For the purposes of using xpath in a Selenium test, how do I write an Xpath expression where the name of my frame is "sb_player"? In my Fierbug console, I get this from my doc ...
window.frames[1].name
"sb-player"
but I can't figure out an equivalent expression in Xpath to identify the frmae (//frames[1] doesn't work).
Thanks for your help, - Dave
Did you try xpath like something below?
//frame[name='sb_player']
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I am using this XPath query succesfully:
//div[(#class="result")]//a[contains(#href,"pinterest.com")]/#href
The URL I am using the XPath query (with simple_html_dom.php) is this one here.
Now, I would like to find results for pinterest.com/one-folder-deep-only and exclude all URLs deeper than one directory, like pinterest.com/one-folder-deep-only/this or pinterest.com/one-folder-deep-only/this/this. I have no idea if there is a way to achieve that. Have googled a lot, but not found anything. Maybe my search terms weren't the best.
Do you have any ideas? Thanks for helping me here.
I am testing the query using the Chrome XPath Helper.
"//" is to evaluate all levels/depths. Instead use only one "/" for the "a" query to only evaluate immediate children
//div[(#id="first-result")]/a[contains(#href,"url.com")]/#href
Note use of / instead of // before the "a" tag.
Try below XPath to select #href from required anchors only:
//a[contains(#href, "url.com") and not(contains(substring-after(./#href, 'url.com/'), "/"))]/#href
Solution for XPath 2.0:
//a[contains(#href, "url.com") and count(tokenize(#href, "/"))=2]/#href
Note that if in real HTML source href starts-with "http://url.com" you should specify =4 instead of =2
I'm having some issues with XPath and import.io and I hope you'll be able to help me. :)
The html code:
<a href="page.php?var=12345">
For the moment, I manage to extract the content of the href ( page.php?var=12345 ) with this:
./td[3]/a[1]/#href
Though, I would like to just collect: 12345
substring might be the solution but it does not seem to work on import.io as I use it...
substring(./td[3]/a[1]/#href,13)
Any ideas of what the problem is?
Thank's a lot in advance!
Try using this for the xpath: (Have the field selected as Text)
.//*[#class='oeil']/a/#href
Then use this for your regex:
([^=]*)$
This will get you the ISBN number you are looking for.
import.io only support functions in XPath when they return a node list
Your path expression is fine, but perhaps it should be
substring(./td[3]/a[1]/#href,14)
"Does not seem to work" is not a very clear description of what is wrong. Do you get error messages? Is the output wrong? Do you have any code surrounding the path expression you could show?
You can use substring, but using substring-after() would be even better.
substring-after(/a/#href,'=')
assuming as input the tiny snippet you have shown:
<a href="page.php?var=12345"/>
will select
12345
and taking into account the structure of your input
substring-after(./td[3]/a[1]/#href,'=')
A leading . in a path expression selects only immediate child td nodes of the current context node. I trust you know what you are doing.
I need a some help in getting a ImportXML command to return the result I'm looking for.
I'm using Google Sheets.
The XML I'm using looks like this:
<DocumentElement>
<BuyOrder>
<itemName>Name of item 1</itemname>
<itemID>1</itemID>
<maxPrice>1000</maxPrice>
<quantity>100</quantity>
</BuyOrder>
<BuyOrder>
<itemName>Name of item 2</itemname>
<itemID>2</itemID>
<maxPrice>2000</maxPrice>
<quantity>200</quantity>
</BuyOrder>
</DocumentElement>
And so on.
What I need is an XPath expression I can use to get maxPrice on a specific itemID.
The ID for itemID comes from another cell in the sheet.
I think this xpath will help you
xpath = "//itemID[contains(.,'1')]/following-sibling::maxPrice"
Try something like the following:
//DocumentElement/BuyOrder[itemID=2]/maxPrice
http://www.w3schools.com/XPath/xpath_examples.asp has some nice examples for learning XPath. they also have an online XPath tester.
http://www.xpathtester.com/xpath is another online XPath tester.
I have a textarea control with an Id that goes something like this:
<textarea id="NewTextArea~~51887~~1" rows="2"/>
And the xpath that has worked before has been
//textarea[#id, "NewTextArea~~51887~~1"]
But now the '51887' portion of the id is become diverse (changing every time) so I need to select the NewtextArea~~*~~1 element without actually specifying the number. Is there a way I can wildcard part of the string so that it will match a particular pattern? I tried using starts-with and ends-with but couldn't get it to work:
//textarea[starts-with(#id, 'NewTextArea~~') and ends-with(#name, '~~1')]
Bare in mind there are other fields with the difference being the number on the end.
Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated :)
I tried using starts-with and ends-with but couldn't get it to work:
//textarea[starts-with(#id, 'NewTextArea~~') and ends-with(#name, '~~1')]
ends-with() is available as a standard function only in XPath 2.0 and you seem to be using XPath 1.0.
Use:
//textarea
[starts-with(#id, 'NewTextArea~~')
and
substring(#id, string-length(#id) - 2) = '~~1'
]
Explanation:
See the answer to this question, for how to implement ends-with() in XPath 1.0:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/405507/36305
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.