Hi, You can't use regular expression in xpath with XPATH 1.0, you can use it in XPATH 2.0 and rexml supports only xpath 1.0.
You can use string operations like substring, string before, string after though. http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-String-Functions. Prema On 2/2/07, Željko Filipin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/30/07, Naga Harish Kanegolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <a href="#" onclick="new Ajax.Request('/data_entry/ajax_add_term/131?contract_id=227', > {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true}); return false;">add a term</a> > Can regular expressions be used with xpath? This does not work. ie.link(:xpath, "//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'#{/227/}']/").click Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException: Unable to locate object, using xpath and //[EMAIL PROTECTED]'(?-mix:227)']/ -- Zeljko Filipin zeljkofilipin.com _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
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