Automating website having XML Content through selenium webdriver

[gurpreet kaur]

Hi All,

How to automate webpage having XML content using selenium webdriver. Please provide help.

Thanks and Regards,

Gurpreet

[Harish Krishnan]

Just use the java to red the values and wat ever you want to do in your application, Work on it

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[gurpreet kaur]

Hi Hari,

The content on the XML page is dynamic. It keeps on changing every 15 minutes. What can be done in this case. 

[Andrew Deschain]

I assume that the content of the XML may change but not the structure itself.

You should be able, in any way, to get either the innerHtml or the text attribute of the element which holds the xml data.

This data can be further processed / validated natively within the language you are using.

If this does not help, you may provide an example or further information so we can help you.

[Thomas Sundberg]

On 7 August 2014 14:10, gurpreet kaur <gurpreetk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Hari,
>
> The content on the XML page is dynamic. It keeps on changing every 15
> minutes. What can be done in this case.
>

You can verify that the expected structure is available. The actual
data may differ, but the structure it lives in is probably not
changing in a random way.
You could perhaps use the application and therefore affect the content
available in the XML snippet in a way that you can foresee.

/Thomas

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[gurpreet kaur]

Hi Andrew,

I need to ensure that Data is appearing in XML. For eg:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/xml/business/india-business/Dhirubhais-grandsons-step-into-fathers-shoes/articleshow/39837028.cms

For this XML, need to ensure that the XML is not empty. Since data will be continuously changing, I cannot put assertion on the data. So, how should I proceed in this case.

Thanks and Regards,

Gurpreet

[Er. Debasish Dutta]

Hi,

You can store test data in excel format and use it for data driven testing.

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Debasish Dutta

[DongXiang]

you can find the top element which hold this xml. in your example, it's id="collapsible0", then get the text content from this element via web driver, it should be the xml content.

I checked with javascript, it looks the contents are below:

<pmarticleshow

<ActionParams msid="39837028" prtpage="0"/>

</pmarticleshow>

looks the first line lost ">", it may cause the xml parse error. Not sure what's the reason. 

Hope it can help you.

--david

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[Andrew Deschain]

It seems you try to validate data coming form some kind of webservice.

In this case you dont actually need Selenium / WebDriver at all.

Just make an http request from within your script and you should be good to go.

Let the XML be parsed by some 3rd party library and check the keys of the XML and not the Values itself (or maybe verify they are not empty).

[gurpreet kaur]

Hi Andrew, Can you please suggest some third Party library that could check the keys of XML?

Thanks and Regards,

Gurpreet

[Andrew Deschain]

Hi Gurpreet,

I dont know in which language you are developing. I suppose its Java (with which i dont have any experience).

Maybe there is already an appropriate parser build in. If not, im pretty sure there is a good one available in your package manager (or have a look at github).