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Alfira
Alfira

Reputation: 113

XPath - How to select by @text that contains new line

In the Mobile application view I see text like this:

Test string

with new line

But in the elements tree of this view (it looks like expandible tree viewer) I see value of the @text attribute of this one like this:

Test stringwith new line

I have tried to use the following ways:

xpath=//*[@text='Test string\nwith new line']

xpath=//*[@text=concat('Test string','\n','with new line']

But they don't work.

Is it possible to select element by its @text attribute containing new line? If it is possible How to do that?

Note: I don't have ability to see source code and change it.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6544

Answers (1)

JLRishe
JLRishe

Reputation: 101680

I don't know of a good way to place a single newline character into an XPath, but you could use normalize-space() if your main objective is to select the element and the fact that it contains a newline isn't all that important:

//*[normalize-space(@text) = 'Test string with new line']

Upvotes: 5

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