Xpath Should Match X Times keyword seems to be failing

[dmllc]

I am trying to verify how many times a webelement is displayed in a jquery overlay. I first use the keyword Wait Until Page Contains Element to verify that the overlay is generated in the DOM. This test case passes. But if I try to get the xpath count of a webelement within the overlay, the test case fails. I even tried to get the count of the overlay id which just passed with Wait Until Page Contains Element, but that fails too.

Wait Until Page Contains Element    id=sales-pop
Xpath Should Match X Times    xpath=//div[@id='sales-pop']    1

11:49:56.111

FAIL

InvalidSelectorException: Message: 'The given selector xpath=//div[@id=\'sales-pop\'] is either invalid or does not result in a WebElement. The following error occurred:\nInvalidSelectorError: Unable to locate an element with the xpath expression xpath=//div[@id=\'sales-pop\'] because of the following error:\n[Exception... "The expression cannot be converted to return the specified type."

what am I doing wrong?

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

Could you send code snapped from the page where the element should be visible.

-Tatu

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[dmllc]

On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:21:03 PM UTC-4, Tatu Aalto wrote:

Ugh

Could you send code snapped from the page where the element should be visible.

-Tatu

On 14.8.2013 19:13, dmllc wrote:

I am trying to verify how many times a webelement is displayed in a jquery overlay. I first use the keyword Wait Until Page Contains Element to verify that the overlay is generated in the DOM. This test case passes. But if I try to get the xpath count of a webelement within the overlay, the test case fails. I even tried to get the count of the overlay id which just passed with Wait Until Page Contains Element, but that fails too.

Wait Until Page Contains Element    id=sales-pop
Xpath Should Match X Times    xpath=//div[@id='sales-pop']    1

11:49:56.111

FAIL

InvalidSelectorException: Message: 'The given selector xpath=//div[@id=\'sales-pop\'] is either invalid or does not result in a WebElement. The following error occurred:\nInvalidSelectorError: Unable to locate an element with the xpath expression xpath=//div[@id=\'sales-pop\'] because of the following error:\n[Exception... "The expression cannot be converted to return the specified type."

what am I doing wrong?

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[Kevin O.]

Do not use the xpath= prefix. XPath is assumed.

Xpath Should Match X Times    //div[@id='sales-pop']    1

This is also a problem for Get Matching Xpath Count

Kevin

[dmllc]

ive been beating my head on a wall trying to figure out why it wont work. my forehead thanks you!

[Ed Manlove]

I've added an issue ticket to add addition information to the keyword documentation so as to point out that users don't need the xpath= prefix in the xpath arguement.

  https://github.com/rtomac/robotframework-selenium2library/issues/228

Ed