normalize-space function in xpath predicates not supported?

[Jeffrey Blaze]

It appears that normalize-space is not supported:

findElement(org.openqa.selenium.By.xpath("//linear[1]/window[1]/imagebutton[normalize-space(@title)='Hello there']"))

throws a AssertionError exception.  While contains(string, subString) works, I use normalize-space very, very often.  Any plans to implement it?

[bootstrap online]

It's not currently supported.

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[Jeffrey Blaze]

Yes, but what about the question at the end of my post?

[bootstrap online]

That's a question for @jlipps.

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Jeffrey Blaze

[Jonathan Lipps]

We'll be switching our XPath engine at some point in the near future to correspond with all the upcoming mobile json wire protocol changes. We'll have an XML version of the source which we can use a full-blown XPath engine to query. At that point I imagine normalize-space will work. So ETA the next few months.

Given that our homegrown XPath support is going away, I'm disinclined to add new features to it in the meantime.

[bootstrap online]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Jonathan Lipps <jli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Given that our homegrown XPath support is going away, I'm disinclined to add new features to it in the meantime.

I agree.

[Jeffrey Blaze]

That makes sense.  Thanks Jonathan.