I'm looking for a way to receive a XML Element (the id of an entry) from a YouTube feed (e.g. http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/USERNAME/uploads).
The feed looks like this:
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:yt="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007" gd:etag="W/"DUcFQncyfCp7I2A9WhVUFE4."">
<id>tag:youtube.com,2008:user:USERNAME:uploads</id>
<updated>2012-05-19T14:16:53.994Z</updated>
...
<entry gd:etag="W/"DE8NSX47eCp7I2A9WhVUFE4."">
<id>tag:youtube.com,2008:video:MfPpj7f6Jj0</id>
<published>2012-05-18T13:30:38.000Z</published>
...
I want to get the first tag in entry (tag:youtube.com, 2008 ...).
After googling for some hours and looking through the GDataXML wiki, I'm clueless because neither XPath nor GData could deliver the right element.
My first guess is, they can't ignore the attributes in the feed and entry tags.
A solution using XPath would be great, but one in Objective-C is equally welcome.
You might be having an issue trying to get XPath to work because of the default namespace.
If you just want the first tag in entry, you can use this:
/*/*[name()='entry']/*[1]
If you want the first id specifically, you can use this:
/*/*[name()='entry']/*[name()='id'][1]
Also if you can use XPath 2.0, you can skip the predicate entirely and use * for the namespace prefix:
/*/*:entry/*:id[1]
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I am wondering if below is achievable using xpath
Given:
<label for="pt1:sc">Select Country</label>
<select id="pt1:sc">....</select>
Requirement:
I want to find select element using single xpath expression like below,
bcs ids are dynamic and always available in attribute 'for'.
//label[text()='Select Country']/#for//*[#id=#for]
Can we pass attribute value(here for attribute of label) in xpath, further down the path to find element.
Please do not suggest alternative using siblings, child, id or selenium get-attribute etc.
Thanks,
You can use something like this to select an element with an attribute value which refers to another attribute located in another element :
//*[#id=//label[text()='Select Country']/#for]
I'm not sure how it's going to work with your actual html, but it works on the example in the question:
//label[text()='Select Country'][#for=//select/#id]
I am trying to find an unique xpath for the below element, please advice if there are any better xpaths to make it for general text as I have currently given for that specific name.
<td tabindex="4" style="text-align: left;" title="name" class="">Name</td>
xpath i am using: //td[#title='name']
here if the name is changed with something else in the code, this wouldn't work, could someone help me identify unique xpath which works in general for any text. Thanks!
You can concatenate (using and / or) multiple attributes of element to find the element precisely .
By.xpath("//td[#title= 'name' and contains(text(), 'Name')]")
However we need to see more details of the code and your DOM of page to find element.
There will always be some element which will never change in the page(like name of table) using that as a relative point ,we can refer to the row of the table.
the simplest way to find the XPath of any element is to go to the developer options and select the markup of the element you want XPath of.
Right Click -> Copy -> XPath
I believe this is the simplest way. And you will also where you are doing wrong.
Screenshot attached for your reference.
I have used the general syntax - "//td[text()='{}']" and passing the name parameter when i define a method so that it won't be specific to one and others can test using the same locator with their name changed when someone else uses the testcase.
Thanks everyone for your response!
I am trying to automate test case using Protractor and Jasmine. The problem is I have an "article" web element tag that gets created at runtime and this web-element has a as sub element. This div element has a "id" tag associated with it. The structure of the code is below.
<article class="a b c d" data-ng-repeat="xyz repeat">
<div id="THIS IS WHAT I WANT" class="class name">
</article>
Now I am able to get get hold of the article web-element. but I am not able to get the ID attribute in the div. The ID values is generated dynamically. Kindly suggest how I can get the ID value.
Thank you
You can use a CSS Selector like this:
article > div
This will get you a div inside of an article. Now you can use this to play around and specify the selector further with classes or other stuff.
If you managed to get the div element you can then pull out the idea using (not sure if the syntax is correct but you should get the idea):
element.getAttribute('id')
1) element(by.xpath(//div[#class='class name'])).getAttribute('id')
2) element(by.xpath(//article [#class='abcd']//div[#id='THIS IS WHAT I WANT'])).getAttribute('id')
You can use chains like this:
element(by.classname('')).element(by.className('classname'));
or
element(by.css('css of parent')).element(by.css('child css'));
or you can use element(by.repeater('repeat in reapeats')).element(by.css(''));
I have this code for xpath and html:
<a class="WatchButton inicon" rel="nofollow" data-productid="111124">
xpath=/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[8]/a
How can I get the data-productid value?
Just add #data-productid to the xpath expression:
/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[8]/a/#data-productid
Note that the xpath expression you have is very fragile since it depends on a bunch of elements and their relevant positions. Try to rely on the element's attributes or one of it's containers - look for id and class attributes. For example:
//a[contains(#class, "WatchButton")]/#data-productid
This gets the first link anywhere on a page that contains WatchButton class and retrieves it's data-productid attribute value.
* Sharing the link to the web page or showing the complete HTML could help to provide you with a more reliable xpath expression.
I would like to change the href attributes of the link tags that have the following attribute :
rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed"
Does anyone know how to achieve that ?
Thank you
Ext.select can be used to search for DOM elements. To understand how to select elements in the DOM, one may have a look at jQuery Selectors documentation.
Ext.dom.Element.set can then be used to change the href attribute. Note that even if Ext.select returns a collection, all methods of Ext.Element can be used on the collection.
In short, this gives something like this:
Ext.select("a[rel='apple-touch-icon-precomposed']").set({href: 'my-other-link.html'});