What's wrong in my Xpath? Please help.

[Ashvini Sharma]

Hi,

I am newbie in selenium. (Using Webdriver + Java).

I am working with sample for iframe. I want to locate a iframe on web page. 

I used Google chrome's inspect element section to find xpath. Also, I have verified xpath from "Xpath Finder" and it shows correct.

This is my xpath: //*[@id="content"]/tbody/tr/td/p[9]/iframe

However, whenever I am using this Xpath in my code:

//String locator = "//*[@id="content"]/tbody/tr/td/p[9]/iframe"

//WebElement frame = driver.findElement(By.xpath(locator));

//driver.switchTo().frame(frame);

I am getting following exception:

Unknown error: Runtime.evaluate threw exception: DOMException: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string '(/html/body//iframe|/html/frameset/frame)[@name="//*[@id="content"]/tbody/tr/td/p[9]/iframe" or @id="//*[@id="content"]/tbody/tr/td/p[9]/iframe"]' is not a valid XPath expression.

Please suggest. Appreciate your help. 

Thanks,

Ashvini

[Rohit Patwari]

Enclose content in single quote ..'content'

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[Ashvini Sharma]

Thank Rohit.

I just figured out that I was using relative path, I took absolute path and it worked. 

However, I am not sure that is this limitation of selenium that only absolute path will work.

[Ram krishna]

Hi Shravani,

There is nothing like that... Selenium Supports the relative Path, It depends on the way we have written/constructed the xpath.

Regards

Ramakrishna