Hi Thomas,
your tip on XPather was a very good one. After installing the addon, I found out that the exact path to the tag included another tag called 'tbody' which is actually nowhere to be found in the source code (at least, I can't see it ;-)). XPather returns the following path and the webtest is successful: /html/body/table/tbody/tr[1]/td I added some additional tags to the /td in the end to make sure I really have the correct one. Thanks for your help. Gert From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Webtest] Finding correct xpath Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:21:13 +0000 Hi, did you check in the results what the "resulting page" for the invoke looks like? I'm not too savvy about the "normalize-space" you are using, but I think you might know why you are using it. :) Also, it may be worth checking the live page with e.g. Firefox and the XPather addon (or with XPath-Explorer) to see if there is anything that you missed on. HTH, Thomas Thomas Klein Senior Associate QA | SapientNitro From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gert Pauwels Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 11:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Webtest] Finding correct xpath Hi, I'm struggling to find the correct xpath for a tag in my html file: <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"> <ul class="tabs"> <li class="on"><a onClick="cursorWait();" href="screen/view.do?screenId=8812§ionId=21389&wizardExecuted=null">Filter</a></li> </ul> <div class="tabArea" style="width: auto; padding: 6px;"> <div class="row"> I have tried several xpaths, and none of them come back with the correct result:xpath="normalize-space(table[1]/tr[1]/td[1]/u...@class='tabs']/l...@class='on']/a)" text="Filter"/> xpath="normalize-space(table[1]/tr[1]/td[1]/u...@class='tabs']/l...@class='on']/a='Filter')" text="Filter"/> xpath="normalize-space(/body/table[1]/tr[1]/td[1]/u...@class='tabs']/l...@class='on']/a)" text="Filter"/> The webtest always fails... Gert Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
