Hi Everyone that responded to my query,

I used getElementsByXPath and I was able to get what I wanted from the HTML
table that had no id or name.

Thank you all for your help!
Lakshmi

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Stand Trooper <standtroo...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I haven't used Xpather, but I do use firefinder quite a bit.
>
> thx
>
> timo
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Jonathan Slate <jsl...@mtl.mit.edu>wrote:
>
>> I've found the XPather Firefox add-on to be helpful in this regard, fwiw.
>>
>> Jevon Wright wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Lakshmi,
>>
>> You could try getElementsByXPath("//table/tr[0]/th[contains(text(),
>> 'Attempts'])") or something similar. There's no straightforward way to do
>> what you're asking, but using a series of XPath expressions I think you
>> should be able to manage that.
>>
>> Perhaps something like
>>
>> 1. Get the index # of "Attempts" in "/table/tr[0]/th"
>> 2. Use this to access all td's with that #, e.g. "/table/tr/td[$i]"
>>
>> My XPath is a little rusty so these queries probably don't work :-)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jevon
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:38 AM, lakshmi somavaram 
>> <lsomava...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jwebunit Users,
>>>
>>> The following is the HTML table code. Is there a way to count the number
>>> of rows, or get the data  in the table using JWebUnit?
>>>
>>> Here the table *does not have the table id or name* associated with it.
>>> Without changing the HTML code, I want to be able to get the value of the
>>> column with the heading "Attempts" in this table.
>>>
>>> Also, there are some more tables in this page that have no names and
>>> id's.
>>> Please direct me in the right direction.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Lakshmi
>>>
>>> <table>
>>>        <tr>
>>>            <th class="columnheader">Type</th>
>>> <th class="columnheader">Attempts</th>
>>> <th class="columnheader">Initial Failure Date</th>
>>> <th class="columnheader">Office</th>
>>> <th class="columnheader">Cust Name</th>
>>> <th class="columnheader">Recv Id</th>
>>>
>>>         </tr>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                     <tr class="oddRow">
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">Notification</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">1</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">02/24/2010</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">FSA KANSAS CITY
>>> COMPLEX-FSA</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">AQUA-GULF TRANSPORT INC</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">554474</td>
>>>                     </tr>
>>>                     <tr>
>>>                         <td>&nbsp;</td><th class="columnheader"
>>> colspan="6">Reasons</th>
>>>                     </tr>
>>>
>>>                             <tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td class="tablerow"
>>> colspan="7">Received null office for state and county</td></tr>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                     <tr class="evenRow">
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">Notification</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">2</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">02/23/2010</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">FSA KANSAS CITY
>>> COMPLEX-FSA</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">INTERFREIGHT TRANSPORT
>>> SYSTEMS</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">547681</td>
>>>                     </tr>
>>>                     <tr>
>>>                         <td>&nbsp;</td><th class="columnheader"
>>> colspan="6">Reasons</th>
>>>                     </tr>
>>>
>>>                             <tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td class="tablerow"
>>> colspan="7">Received null office for state and county</td></tr>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                     <tr class="oddRow">
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">Notification</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">3</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">02/23/2010</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">FSA KANSAS CITY
>>> COMPLEX-FSA</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">WETERN AG RESOURCES</td>
>>>                         <td class="tablerow">547577</td>
>>>                     </tr>
>>> <tr><td colspan="5">&nbsp;</td></tr>
>>>     </table>
>>>
>>>
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