XPath doesn't detect text with & nbsp; as spaces

[Johanan]

I've experienced a problem that is discribed here:

http://groups.google.com/group/selenium-users/browse_thread/thread/65c11c28b44dddee/e997e0df98eb85c8?lnk=gst&q=XPath+unable+to+detect+text+with+%26+nbsp%3B+as+spaces#e997e0df98eb85c8

Exactly, if some text on my site starts with   symbol I cannot
locate it properly.
Using "\u00a0" doesn't help either.

[Shaba K]

Can't you use the contains() function ?? for a string within the text 

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[Johanan]

In the most cases -yes, I can but still I need use starts-
with(text(), 'filter') when I am testing filtering.

[Mark Collin]

I think you could use some advanced XPath to convert   into a space,
have a look at the following to point you in the right direction:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1852571/xpath-function-to-remove-white-sp
ace

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[Johanan]

Thank you for the answer but

//*[starts-with(translate(text(), "\u0160", ''), 'filter')]
//*[starts-with(translate(text(), "\u00a0", ''), 'filter')]
//*[starts-with(translate(text(), "&nbsp", ''), 'filter')]
//*[starts-with(translate(text(), " ", ''), 'filter')]

all these variants do not work. Maybe I am to represent the &nbsp
symbol in &#12 format but I cannot find how to do it.

On 20 апр, 15:03, "Mark Collin" <mark.col...@lazeryattack.com> wrote:
> I think you could use some advanced XPath to convert &nbsp; into a space,
> have a look at the following to point you in the right direction:
>

> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1852571/xpath-function-to-remove-w...

[Shaba K]

@Mark,

Thanks for sharing that conversation.

That's helpful

Cheers,

Shabana

[Johanan]

We have found the solution:

//*[starts-with(translate(text(), ' ', ''), 'filter')]

this line works! Notice: the 2nd argument in translate() function is
nbsp inserted with Alt+0160