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Reputation: 114

WatirWebdriver using Xpath to find children of a given node

I am trying to do a 2 stage xpath selection with WatirWebdriver, first to find the elements within a container and then to find specific info from each element:

# Select all elements of interest
browser.divs(xpath: '/html/body/ul/li[@class="thing"]').each do |pannel|
  # Select info from each element
  panel.element(xpath: '//h1[@class="thing_title"]/a')
end

The problem is that the second xpath select does not search children of the given node. It searches the entire page and selects the first match - so you get the same info of the first match every time. I found one solution is to give it a complete path like so:

# Select info from each element
panel.element(xpath: 'div/div[2]/div[1]/div/h1/a')

But the path is not necessarily the same every time, which breaks things.

Is there way to search children of the given node only, without specifying the complete path?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 628

Answers (1)

Justin Ko
Justin Ko

Reputation: 46826

The problem is that the inner XPath says to search for the h1 element anywhere in the document. To only search within the context of the current node, you need to tell the XPath by starting with a .:

panel.element(xpath: './/h1[@class="thing_title"]/a')

Upvotes: 1

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