Re: [selenium-users] Can't use an integer variable in place of integer in xpath

[Hien Ngo]

I believe Xpath search engine doesn't know when the "i" is a variable and when it is an actual i as in "yui". Use this tr[Myvar] in place off tr[i], and excute command MyXpath.replace(Myvar, i.tostring());

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:10 PM, carina0110 <intern...@hotmail.com> wrote:

(Using Webdriver / Java / Eclipse / TestNG)

 

I want to work with a row item in a table. I'm going through the rows using a loop where my counter is declared and initialized as 'int row = 1'.

 

The element declaration is as follows:

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@class='yui3-datatable-data']/tr[i]/td[contains(@class,'yui3-datatable-col-tmpt_name')]"))

Notice the "tr[i]" part of the xpath. If I use the integer varable 'i', I can't get the text. If I use actual integer, "tr[1]", I get the text just fine. Why?

 

I tried changing the type to 'long', but it's not working.

 

Thanks.

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[Mike Riley]

It is much easier than that.  I do this all the time:
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@class='yui3-datatable-data']/tr[" + i + "]/td[contains(@class,'yui3-datatable-col-tmpt_name')]"))

Java will convert the integer to a string for you automagically.

Mike

On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:23:38 PM UTC-7, Lerry wrote:

I believe Xpath search engine doesn't know when the "i" is a variable and when it is an actual i as in "yui". Use this tr[Myvar] in place off tr[i], and excute command MyXpath.replace(Myvar, i.tostring());

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:10 PM, carina0110 <intern...@hotmail.com> wrote:

(Using Webdriver / Java / Eclipse / TestNG)

 

I want to work with a row item in a table. I'm going through the rows using a loop where my counter is declared and initialized as 'int row = 1'.

 

The element declaration is as follows:

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@class='yui3-datatable-data']/tr[i]/td[contains(@class,'yui3-datatable-col-tmpt_name')]"))

Notice the "tr[i]" part of the xpath. If I use the integer varable 'i', I can't get the text. If I use actual integer, "tr[1]", I get the text just fine. Why?

 

I tried changing the type to 'long', but it's not working.

 

Thanks.

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