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Reputation: 1

org.w3c.dom.Document object in RFT

I am trying to use xpath in RFT. Searching over the net threw this code at me-

private static NodeList getNodesWithXPath(Document document, String xpathStr)
    throws XPathExpressionException {
        NodeList nodes = null;
        XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
        XPath xpath = factory.newXPath();
        if (xpathStr != null) {
            XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile(xpathStr);
            Object result = expr.evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODESET);
            nodes = (NodeList) result;
        }
        return nodes;
    }

Now, I am new at RFT and totally at a loss about how to access the 'Document' object? Trying to typecast TestObject into this throws an exception. I could see a few examples stating something like

Document doc = parse(xmlFileLocation)

but I am not sure what this xmlFileLocation means. I have a simple web page where I need to identify the element using xpath.

P.S. - I understand there are other ways of identifying the object using atDescendant, etc, but I need to explicitly use xpath here due to some reasons.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 440

Answers (1)

Alessandro Da Rugna
Alessandro Da Rugna

Reputation: 4695

They are different Document objects.

I think you got the code from IBM developerworks, and that is a document obtained from an XML file, thus browsable with XPATH.

RFT Document is com.rational.test.ft.object.interfaces.DocumentTestObject
while XML related one probably is org.w3c.dom.Document.
Totally different classes.

XPath is not supported by RFT and also no answers in the forums.

If you need XPath queries in your pages try something else, like Selenium.

Upvotes: 1

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