Xpath to get text from xml

[norman bond]

Hi, I'm probably making silly mistake but I cannot get his xpath 

to work in Inspect layout block.

xpathEncode(".//*[@android:id=\"@com.gotogames.funbridge:id/result_screen_ranking_header_rank\"]/@android:text")

There is only 1 such entry in the xml layout.

All I get back is the encoded xpath not the text on screen.

Result is set to string

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

The xpathEncode function is for including text in a XPath predicate as a string, not for the encoding the the whole expression.

Try using just:

.//*[@android:id='@com.gotogames.funbridge:id/result_screen_ranking_header_rank']/@android:text

[norman bond]

Thanks.".//*[@android:id=\"@com.gotogames.funbridge:id/cell_result_screen_ranking_player_pseudo\"]/@android:text"

Sorry but a couple more questions.

The app I'm processing has display of one off info at the top followed by a s⁵crollable list of player info.

1) how can I get 2 or more attributes from 1 Inspect. I thought it was just by adding further clauses at the end,

 Eg "/@android:text/@android:layout_y" but returns null.

2) how to process the scroll able list. No predicate or [1] returns the 1st matching data, 

Eg ".//*[@android:id=\"@com.gotogames.funbridge:id/cell_result_screen_ranking_player_pseudo\"]/@android:text"

Or ".//*[@android:id=\"@com.gotogames.funbridge:id/cell_result_screen_ranking_player_pseudo\"][1]/@android:text"

But [2] etc returns null.

I do have a working flow (complex as does process other screens as well) using findall on the layout, but would like t

o use Inspect as a more robust solution

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

1. Try using an union expression, e.g. .//android.widget.TextView | .//android.widget.ImageView
2. It should work, but keep in mind that it usually only include visible items, and that the [1] position predicate reflects the visible index which may not correspond to the actual list position, use the @android:layout_row for that.
   Maybe item [2] had not loaded, yet to be rendered, when the layout was inspected, try using a short Delay to have more items be loaded

[norman bond]

Hi.

1) not sure i follow that. I want 2 attributes from the same

 element. I've seen examples in other forums (for different tools)

 shown as /attr1/attr2 after the element path

2) definitely visible on screen, however there is no layout_row

 in the xml so I guess it won't  be possible.

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

1. e.g. .//android.widget.TextView/@*[name()='android:text' or name()='android:layout_y'], see here.

[norman bond]

Thanks,  but that selects an element with either of those 2 attributes. What I was

 looking for getting 2 (or more) attributes from a single element.

I've looked at several forums but none of the suggestions works for me.

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

No, that should select all attributes /@* with those name()=, ensure Result type is Node-set.