The key thing that I never saw spelled out about XPath was that you can have more than one conditional (e.g. [id()='foo'][text()*='bar]). Once I understood that, it was fairly easy to work with.
Shalon Wood MarkMT <[email protected]> writes: > Thanks Shalon. I think I can see how that would work (though haven't > used have_xpath before). A have_tag solution would still be nice > (syntax just seems a little less arcane), but I'll take a closer look > at the xpath approach. > > Mark. > > > On Jan 26, 8:07 am, Shalon Wood <[email protected]> wrote: >> MarkMT <[email protected]> writes: >> > Can someone give me some advice about how to test for a merb view that >> > contains something like - >> >> > <div id="some_id"> >> > some_text <a href="http://example.com";>some_more_text</a> >> > </div> >> >> > I know that rspec when used with rails allows you to write something >> > like - >> >> > response.should have_tag('div#some_id', 'some_text') >> >> response.should have_xpath("//div[id()='some_id'][text()*='some_text']") >> should do it, off the top of my head. >> >> Shalon Wood > > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
