Get full XPath from partial - xpath

Question

I am using selenium with perl and have label on page, to access this label i have following xpath: //*[text()='some here'] , the problem that a need to get full xpath of this element, like /html/body/table/tr/..../any other/and other/ , is there is any selenium method or perl function ? looking for perl solution or any other working things.
thanks

Answer 1

looking for perl solution or any other
working things
This XPath 2.0 expression:
string-join(for $node in ancestor-or-self::node()
return concat(('#')[$node/self::attribute()],
$node/name(),
(concat('[',
count($node/preceding-sibling::node()
[name()=$node/name()]) + 1,
']'))[$node/../node()
[name()=$node/name()][2]]),
'/')
Edit: Shorter expression.

Answer 2

This XSLT 1.0 transformation produces an XPath expression for every node contained in the $pNode parameter:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<path>
<xsl:call-template name="buildPath"/>
</path>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="buildPath">
<xsl:variable name="pNode" select="."/>
<xsl:variable name="theResult">
<xsl:for-each select="$pNode">
<xsl:variable name="theNode" select="."/>
<xsl:for-each select=
"$theNode
|
$theNode/ancestor-or-self::node()[..]">
<xsl:element name="slash">/</xsl:element>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="self::*">
<xsl:element name="nodeName">
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
<xsl:variable name="thisPosition" select=
"count(preceding-sibling::*
[name(current())
=
name()])"/>
<xsl:variable name="numFollowing" select=
"count(following-sibling::
*[name(current())
=
name()])"/>
<xsl:if test="$thisPosition + $numFollowing > 0">
<xsl:value-of select=
"concat('[', $thisPosition +1, ']')"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise> <!-- This node is not an element -->
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="count(. | ../#*) = count(../#*)">
<!-- Attribute -->
<xsl:element name="nodeName">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('#',name())"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="self::text()"> <!-- Text -->
<xsl:element name="nodeName">
<xsl:value-of select="'text()'"/>
<xsl:variable name="thisPosition"
select="count(preceding-sibling::text())"/>
<xsl:variable name="numFollowing"
select="count(following-sibling::text())"/>
<xsl:if test="$thisPosition + $numFollowing > 0">
<xsl:value-of select=
"concat('[', $thisPosition +1, ']')"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="self::processing-instruction()">
<!-- Processing Instruction -->
<xsl:element name="nodeName">
<xsl:value-of select="'processing-instruction()'"/>
<xsl:variable name="thisPosition"
select="count(preceding-sibling::processing-instruction())"/>
<xsl:variable name="numFollowing"
select="count(following-sibling::processing-instruction())"/>
<xsl:if test="$thisPosition + $numFollowing > 0">
<xsl:value-of select=
"concat('[', $thisPosition +1, ']')"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="self::comment()"> <!-- Comment -->
<xsl:element name="nodeName">
<xsl:value-of select="'comment()'"/>
<xsl:variable name="thisPosition"
select="count(preceding-sibling::comment())"/>
<xsl:variable name="numFollowing"
select="count(following-sibling::comment())"/>
<xsl:if test="$thisPosition + $numFollowing > 0">
<xsl:value-of select=
"concat('[', $thisPosition +1, ']')"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
<!-- Namespace: -->
<xsl:when test=
"count(. | ../namespace::*)
=
count(../namespace::*)">
<xsl:variable name="apos">'</xsl:variable>
<xsl:element name="nodeName">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('namespace::*',
'[local-name() = ', $apos, local-name(), $apos, ']')"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
<!-- <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> -->
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="$theResult"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when applied on the following XML document:
<div id="entry-1" class="item-asset asset hentry">
<div class="asset-header">
<h2 class="asset-name entry-title">
<a rel="bookmark" href="http://blahblah.com/paper-scissors">Paper Scissors</a>
</h2>
</div>
<div class="asset-content entry-content">
<div class="asset-body">
<p>Paper and scissors</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
the result is a list of the XPath expressions for every node in the document:
<path>/div</path>
<path>/div/#id</path>
<path>/div/#class</path>
<path>/div/div[1]</path>
<path>/div/div[1]/#class</path>
<path>/div/div[1]/h2</path>
<path>/div/div[1]/h2/#class</path>
<path>/div/div[1]/h2/a</path>
<path>/div/div[1]/h2/a/#rel</path>
<path>/div/div[1]/h2/a/#href</path>
<path>/div/div[1]/h2/a/text()</path>
<path>/div/div[2]</path>
<path>/div/div[2]/#class</path>
<path>/div/div[2]/div</path>
<path>/div/div[2]/div/#class</path>
<path>/div/div[2]/div/p</path>
<path>/div/div[2]/div/p/text()</path>