How about (untested) <verifyXPath xpath="count(//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'foo')=0"/> or <verifyXPath xpath="not(//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'foo')"/>
Dierk > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc Guillemot > Sent: Donnerstag, 1. November 2007 9:49 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Webtest] VerifyElementNotPresent? > > > Hi Bernd, > > personally I use something like > <not> > <verifyXPath xpath="//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'foo'"/> > </not> > > but that's nearly as ugly as your proposition ;-( > > In general the <not> construct is very powerful but in this case > something like verifyElementNotPresent could perhaps make sense. > > Cheers, > Marc. > > PS: congratulation for the nice blog on Dierk's WebTest session at > Grails Exchange (in fact for the whole serie) > > -- > Blog: http://mguillem.wordpress.com > > > > Bernd Schiffer wrote: > > Hi. > > > > What's the simplest way to assert that a element with an id (!) is _not_ > > present on a page? > > > > Something like > > <not> > > <verifyElementText > > htmlId="foo" > > regex="true" > > text=".*" /> > > </not> > > > > But that's ugly and I think there must be a simpler way in > WebTest, though > > I'm not that familiar with this tool so far. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Bernd > > > _______________________________________________ > WebTest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest

