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Maks
Maks

Reputation: 33

How to get the number of child nodes using XPath for HTML?

I have a the following structure within html:

<A>
   <b>1</b>
   <b>2</b>
   <b>3</b>
</A>

How I can select the count of child nodes A using C# and webdriver?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2319

Answers (1)

Phil Walton
Phil Walton

Reputation: 963

This works...

Program.cs:

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using System;


namespace SeleniumTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver())
            {
                driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("file://" + AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory.Replace("\\", "/") + "test.html");
                //Use this line to capture all child "b" elements
                var bElements = driver.FindElementByXPath("//A").FindElements(By.TagName("b"));
                //Use the line below to capture all descendants
                var bElements2 = driver.FindElementByXPath("//A").FindElements(By.XPath(".//*"));
                //Use the line below to capture all immediate child elements
                var bElements3 = driver.FindElementsByXPath("//A/*");

                Console.WriteLine("Child elements1: " + bElements.Count);
                Console.WriteLine("Child elements2: " + bElements2.Count);
                Console.WriteLine("Child elements3: " + bElements3.Count);

                driver.Close();
            }
        }
    }
}

Test.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
    <A>
        <b>1</b>
        <b>2</b>
        <b>3
            <c>4</c>
        </b>
        <z>5</z>
    </A>

</body>
</html>

Output:

Child elements1: 3
Child elements2: 5
Child elements3: 4

Upvotes: 2

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