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orwell
orwell

Reputation: 21

Using xpath with Firewatir

I'm just starting out with ruby and firewatir, so I'm trying to find out if it's just me, or if something is broken with firewatir.

I'm trying to select an element using xpath.

This works:

browser.link(:id => "about").exists #true

This fails

browser.link(:xpath => "//*[@id='about']").exists #false

However, this works as well:

browser.element_by_xpath("//*[@id='about']").exists #true

This is on firewatir 1.7.1 

$ ruby -v   #ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [i686-linux]

Upvotes: 2

Views: 472

Answers (1)

Bill Agee
Bill Agee

Reputation: 3646

Looks like there may be a bug with combining :xpath and multiple attributes, because that XPath query doesn't work for me either when I use :xpath =>:

irb(main):021:0> ff.link(:xpath => "//*[@id='about']").exists?
=> false

But it works if I use the single-attribute style (a comma instead of =>) to find the element, and use "exists?" with a question mark on the end.

Not sure why, but both "exists" and "exists?" are defined, and they have different behavior:

irb(main):018:0> ff.link(:xpath, "//*[@id='about']").exists?
=> true
irb(main):019:0> ff.link(:xpath, "//*[@id='about']").exists
=> ""

Upvotes: 1

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