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I want to get a bunch of dom-objects with xpath and loop through those to check if they contains a specified text, is this possible in the Selenium IDE or rc? Perl is my prefered language

XPath would be something like xpath=//tbody[@class='table-data']/tr/td/div[@class='table-item']

This would return all row items in the table, but i need to check each div if contains a specified text string. Is this possible with Selenium?

Best regards

WWW::Selenium is the obvious part (or Test::WWW::Selenium). Could someone answer more explicitly the "test that multiple divs matching an xpath all contain specified text"? Or at least show a hint of how to do the "multiple" or "contain specified text" parts? — ysth
– ysth, Commented May 5, 2010 at 17:00

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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The WWW::Selenium module is perfect for your need.

From an older answer to another question:

It supports access to elements via xpath elements, table IDs, text (regex-matching!) and URLs...

You'll need to download the Selenium Remote Control and have it running in the background for the module to work.

A caveat is that it may not be a good option if your page load times are unpredictable.

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Schwern · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-07 04:12:26Z

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If all you want is XPath searching of HTML there's a number of modules to choose from, but Test::XPath looks the best of the lot.

  use Test::XPath;

  my $html = ...get it however...

  # Create a Test::XPath object from your HTML
  my $tx = Test::XPath->new( xml => $html, is_html => 1 );

  # Test for the existence of your table rows.
  $tx->ok( q{//tbody[@class='table-data']/tr/td/div[@class='table-item']}, sub {
      # Run more tests on each node returned by the above xpath expression
      $_->like( './text()', qr/specified text/, "row contains the right text" );
  }, 'found table rows' );

My XPath may be a little off, but you get the idea.

answered May 7, 2010 at 4:12

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