Well this is not the simplest xpath expression I've seen, but it's definatly an xpath expression... so it should work wether Canoo likes it or not.
What puzzles me is that we both find that builds after release 2.6 breaks xpath's and no beginning of a solution afaik... Marc Guillemot wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > do you seriously use such an XPath expression? Except in very very > special cases, ugly absolute XPath expressions don't make sense and are > a very bad idea. In fact I think that WebTest should refuse them (as > well as this mailing list) to force user to use better XPath > expressions! ;-) > > Can you provide the html page? > > Cheers, > Marc. > -- > Web: http://www.efficient-webtesting.com > Blog: http://mguillem.wordpress.com > > Martin_HH wrote: >> hi @ll, >> >> in december I have start with webtest(1729) and create 10 Tests with ~300 >> Steps. >> And everything was OK. >> Only the easy one like clickLink, verifyText and verifyXPath. >> One of them: >> <verifyXPath description="Instrumentsuche" >> xpath="/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/ul/li/a" >> text="[\s(Instrument Suche)\s]" regex="true"/> >> >> Now I have changed to webtest(1738) and if I now run the old tests I get >> an >> Error: >> Message >> Wrong result for xpath >>> /html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/ul/li/a< >> Details >> expected value [\s(Instrument Suche)\s] >> actual value >> >> There are no changes on the website or in the tests. >> If I put the xpath in the FF3 extension "XPath Checker" or "XPather" both >> give me the expected value. >> >> Why dosn't the "new" WebTest get the old an right value. >> Is there a bug in the new version or a mistake in my test? >> >> thanks >> Martin >> > > > _______________________________________________ > WebTest mailing list > WebTest@lists.canoo.com > http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/WebTest-%281738%29-don%27t-like-xpath--tp21730384p21951068.html Sent from the WebTest mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list WebTest@lists.canoo.com http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
