On Sunday 15 July 2007 11:26, Benji York wrote: > I think I miscommunicated. Let me combine your example and mine to > demonstrate what I was talking about. Say you have an HTML document and > you want to make assertions about a portion of it. You could use XPath > to extract part of the document and then use the smart ellipses to make > assertions about it. Like so: > > >>> browser.open(...) > >>> Introspector(browser.contents).xpath('//foo') > <foo ...>Text here</foo> > > In the above example, the tester wants to extract the <foo> element, and > assert that its contents are "Text here" and that there are no child > elements. They don't want to make any assertions about it's attributes > so they put the ellipses there. Is that example clearer?
Yes, I see. I think this would be somewhat useful, since it would make the test less brittle to id or cass changes. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com