Is it possible there is some HTML embedded in the text that is not showing up in the failure messages? What happens if you view the source of the webtest output?
-- Jonathan Rosenberg Founder & Executive Director, Tabby's Place http://www.tabbysplace.org/ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gert Pauwels Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Webtest] Handling non-breaking spaces and other stuff Hi Will, thanks for you help. Unfortunately, the webtest still fails even though the expected and the actual value 'look' the same: Message Wrong result for xpath >/html/body/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/ul/li[wt:cleanText(a)]< Location C:\PROJECTS-FUNCTIONAL\CANOO\CanooWebTest\_DNBNOR\tests\cm_screen_AlertDetai ls.xml (line: 14) Details expected value Alert details actual value Alert details expected value Alert details actual value Alert details Gert expected value Alert details actual value Alert details _____ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Webtest] Handling non-breaking spaces and other stuff Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:50:46 -0600 My second suggestion would return true for Customer Address details. You might be able to put a not() in there but then the xpath is getting pretty unweildy. My last suggestion is wt:cleanText() which is not part of the standard xpath functions but, I think, a webtest added one: //li[wt:cleanText(a)='Customer details'] Otherwise I don't know sorry :( Will _____ Hi, yes, they are in a table, and this is the xpath that I am using (with your suggestion in it): <verifyXPath description="Verify Caption Top Section" xpath="normalize-space(/html/body/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/ul/li/a[contains(.,'C ustomer&nbsp;details')])" text="Customer details"/> I need to be absolutely certain that the caption I write in text="New Alerts" is the exact caption that Canoo finds, because I may also have captions like Customer Address details, Customer Account details etc. Would your suggestions also be returning 'true' for those captions? If so, then I cannot use them. Is there any possibility to remove the non-breaking space and replace it with a 'regular' space? Gert _____ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Webtest] Handling non-breaking spaces and other stuff Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:26:57 -0600 I'm assuming the text you supplied is in a table just so my below xpath statements are correct. The suggestions I have are in the brackets. Have you tried: //td[contains(.,'Customer&nbsp;details')] How about this workaround: //td[contains('Customer') and contains('details')] _____ Hi, I seem to be stumbling upon other issues as I advance in my webtests. Have any of you had to deal with nbsp's in your webpage tests? I need to click links that are displayed as Customer details but webtests fail on the caption because in the source page they are written as "Customer details". How can I handles these appropriately? Gert _____ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. <https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969> _____ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. <https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969> Get it now. _____ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. <https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969>
