Proposal: the need for and usage of xpath for cucumber steps

[tomtt]

When doing large cucumber suites for website development I find there
are often situations where css selectors and/or have_tag matchers just
don't cut it.

The medicine for this are xpaths, but they take a while to wrap your
head around and to see how they can be useful. I have a couple of
examples from the battlefield that should demonstrate these things.

Anybody interested in a talk like this?

Tom.

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[Kerry Buckley]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:03 PM, tomtt <tomte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When doing large cucumber suites for website development I find there
> are often situations where css selectors and/or have_tag matchers just
> don't cut it.
>
> The medicine for this are xpaths, but they take a while to wrap your
> head around and to see how they can be useful. I have a couple of
> examples from the battlefield that should demonstrate these things.
>
> Anybody interested in a talk like this?

I was actually in the process of debugging some Cucumber steps using
XPaths (via HPricot) when your e-mail arrived. So yes, I'd be
interested.

Kerry