Case insensitive xpaths

[Getafix]

Hello everyone

Can you please let me know to to write xpaths having the text
attribute case-insensitive
Like for the below example.

xpath=//a[text()='MANIFEST']

Thanks

[Ritesh]

Hi,

you can do this by storing the text, just go through bellow code.

String text = selenium.getText("your xpath");
if(text.trim().equalsIgnoreCase("MANIFEST"))
{
true;
}
else
{
false;
}

Thanks
Ritesh

[Mark Collin]

That's not really answering the OP's question.

Try this instead:

//a[translate(., 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ',
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')='manifest']

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[darrell]

The standard trick to compare strings and ignore case is to convert
the unknown string to all uppercase or all lowercase then compare it
to a known string. Thus your example would become:

xpath=//a[lower-case(text())='MANIFEST']

This of course only works if your browser supports XPath 2.0:
http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/#lower-case. If it does not,
you'll have to use the XPath 1.0 function translate as Mark
demonstrates.

Darrell

[Gopi Ganesasundaram]

Thanks very much Mark ! Your solution works perfectly !
I will be needing to use case-insensitive xpaths more frequently because i would be locating elements that has texts like Manifest ,MAnifest,manifest and MANIFEST
Thanks Darrell for your solution and link !
However my browser(s) do not support the xpath 2.0 unfortunately

[ravi teja]

Hi Mark , 

I am having similar requirement , i need to click a checkbox , i will get the checkbox name dynamically during the program execution. I need to select the checkbox in the application ignoring case 

sensitivity , i have tried  

selenium.click("css=td[class='dxeListBoxItem dxeT']:contains("regexpi:"+str+"")");

but it is highlighting as error in eclipse . 

Please help me in solving this.

To describe breifly my requirement ,  during the flow of  program execution i will get the name of the checkbox to be selected in application i got the checkbox name as "Inactive" , i stored it in a string . 

when i passed this string variable to click in the main applciation it is throwing  error like element not found because in the application  .. the checkbox is named as "INACTIVE" . hence it is failing to 

recognize it . how can i make it case insensitive so that it can identify the check box in any case. 

ThankS & Regards

Ravi Teja P.  

On Thursday, April 1, 2010 2:14:16 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Collin wrote:

That's not really answering the OP's question.

Try this instead:

//a[translate(., 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ',
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')='manifest']

> Hi,
>
> you can do this by storing the text, just go through bellow code.
>
> String text = selenium.getText("your xpath");
> if(text.trim().equalsIgnoreCase("MANIFEST"))
> {
>   true;
> }
> else
> {
>   false;
> }
>
> Thanks
> Ritesh
>

> On Mar 31, 4:51�am, Getafix <ashg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone
>>
>> Can you please let me know to to write xpaths having the text
>> attribute case-insensitive
>> Like for the below example.
>>
>> xpath=//a[text()='MANIFEST']
>>
>> Thanks
>
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