[wtr-general] Re: Capturing data within an xml

2009-01-07 Thread winstan
Hi Guys, Another question for you bunch as you seem to be the most helpful out there (have posted on the comp.lang.ruby group with no response). I have been trying to make requests to the webserver via SOAP adapting an example i had found on another site. Am i looking at the right thing for

[wtr-general] Re: Capturing data within an xml

2008-12-23 Thread Bret Pettichord
I was testing an rss feed and used Mechanize + Hpricot to do so. I got the url from the application using Watir and then passed it to Mechanize to get the page and then used Hpricot to validate it. Bret srinivas subramanian wrote: Hi, Its been quite some time, since i've started using

[wtr-general] Re: Capturing data within an xml

2008-12-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
Have you considered using Mechanize instead of Watir? That's what I've used when I've had to test XML. Bret winstan wrote: Hello Again, After playing around with rexml with some of the URL’s provided in this thread and other sites I have found I have established that you are in fact

[wtr-general] Re: Capturing data within an xml

2008-12-22 Thread winstan
Hi Bret, No i havent used Mechanize. Nor have i heard of it to be honest. Before i jump into it and start playing around with it, i would like to ask have you used it in the means in which im trying to access the xml defined above? Cheers On Dec 23, 3:08 am, Bret Pettichord b...@pettichord.com

[wtr-general] Re: Capturing data within an xml

2008-12-22 Thread srinivas subramanian
Hi, Its been quite some time, since i've started using Watir. Its awesome. I've used Hpricot to test xmls. It worked out well for me. Please refer: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/ Thanks, Srinivas On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:25 AM, winstan lucasdavidwinstan...@gmail.comwrote: Hi

[wtr-general] Re: Capturing data within an xml

2008-12-04 Thread Richard Lawrence
You really don't want to be reinventing XML parsing (badly) with string substitution or regular expressions. Given a string with your XML in it, the REXML code to get the values you want would look something like the following. You'll have to use something like Net::Http to actually make the web

[wtr-general] Re: Capturing data within an xml

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Lawrence
Why are you accessing the web service using Watir and IE? Will end users of the web service access it with a browser? If not, and if you're just using the web service to get data to use in other GUI tests, you might find something like Net::Http and REXML to be more appropriate for this part of