Not sure if this fits your problem, but one approach would be to look at the
output of b.div(:id, 'contents').text. It may be possible to use regexp
matching to get the text leading up to the div and then the text after, without
having to worry specifically about what element outside the table the text is
stored in. For example, maybe the table has a static header row and you know
that the first 2 column row names are going to be foo and bar. You could then
write a regexp to get the text above the table. And then use a similar strategy
to get the text below. Then you don't have to worry about dynamic table updates
in between checks for the text values of elements within the div. If you see
some reliable pattern marking the beginning and end of the table text then this
should work.
Alternative idea is to get the enclosing div HTML, use a regexp to strip out
the table tags and everything between and then feed the resulting string to
Nokogiri for further manipulation (either convert remainder to text or traverse
the remaining elements one by one.) Seems sort of low rent but that would
definitely work.
From: Derek W <[email protected]>
To: watir-general <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [wtr-general] How can I get all the content in a div element then
strip out a table element leaving only what elements I want?
What is the context? Are you first getting the div via xpath and storing it in
a variable?
If so, you can just do a regex using something like this right?
"<table>[0-9a-zA-Z<> \/]*<\/table>"
If you're trying to do this all in 1 xpath locator, can't you do something like:
//div[@id="contents"]//table//text()
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Super Kevy <[email protected]>
wrote:
How can I get all the content in a div element then strip out a table element
leaving only what elements I want?
Assume a structure like
<div id="contents><p>Static text I want to offline into a file as a static
comparison later</p><p>If the static content is updated by a change request I
will detect the changes by a file compare</p><table><tr><td>this table is
dynamic is updated with new values all the time</td></tr><t/able><p>More static
content</p><ul><li>etc, etc</li></ul></div>
The notion is I store the statics in a file then iterating a test that can
compare the current static elements to an offline file and let me know if there
are changes. I would like to be able to strip the table from the div wrapper
and just see the whats left for the comparison.
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