On Sunday 15 July 2007 10:44, Benji York wrote:
> > Right, z3c.etestbrowser does this already. I wish they would have done
> > this with a different object altogether, but they extended the
> > TestBrowser class. But then I do not have enough objectstion to write a
> > new package.
>
> Perhaps someone can explain the utility of z3c.etestbrowser. As far as
> I can see, it just adds an "etree" attribute to browser instances. That
> doesn't seem to have much advantage over just calling etree on
> browser.contents.
Right, right now it does not do much more. But I do not have to think about it
and just use the attribute. I usually end up writing one more utility
function that does an XPath expression selects the first result (which I am
usually interested in) and prints that. I think this would make a great
method on etestbrowser.
> I'm doing some work with doctest right now, and am considering how to
> make assertions about HTML/XML better. The programmatic approach like
> above is one option. Another would be to use a special checker that
> took into account HTML/XML structure. For example, it could interpret
> ellipses differently such that
>
> <foo ...>Text here</foo>
>
> would match
>
> <foo a="b">Text here</foo>
>
> but not
>
> <foo><bar/>Text here</foo>
I would not like that. I really, really like to use XPath to select an element
in the HTML structure. The method above would still require me to write
>>> print browser.contents
<...
<foo ...>Text here</foo>
...
So I really like this much better:
>>> print browser.xpath1('//foo')
<foo a="b">Text here</foo>
Of course, I really would prefer this:
>>> print Introspector(browser).xpath1('//foo')
<foo a="b">Text here</foo>
This is so that the browser features and content inspection are separated.
Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training
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