how about //abc[max(1,last()-1)] ? BTW: abc[x] is short for abc[position()=x], which means it is _not_ the xth abc in the document but an abc that is the xth child of whatever parent.
cheers Dierk | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Policello | Sent: Freitag, 16. Mai 2008 17:54 | To: [email protected]; Harihara Vinayakaram | Subject: RE: [Webtest] Re: XPath implementation in WebTest | | I do not have an XPath manual in front of me at the moment | but wonder if this would work. | | | | //abc[last()-1] | //abc[last()] | | | | It would in some scripting languages and some compiled languages. | | | | Also, a conditional could probably work using the nilled( //abc[last() -1] ) function in XPath. | | | | George | | ________________________________ | | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harihara | Vinayakaram | Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 8:40 AM | To: [email protected] | Subject: [Webtest] Re: XPath implementation in WebTest | | | | I am sorry but the xpath expression works the same way in | Saxon as it does in webtest . | So maybe I am looking for an xpath expression that gets the | only node even if the expression is last() -1 | | Regards | Hari | | | | On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Harihara Vinayakaram | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | Hi | I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this | question . But anyway | | My understanding is that the xpath exression //abc[last()-1] | will return the last but one element named abc . | | It works most of the times except when there is only one element . | | In that case WebTest returns element not found while others | like saxon for example returns the last element . | | Is this a bug ? or is my understanding wrong | | Regards | Hari | | | | _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
