How do I access all the elements on a page?

[Judy]

I have several pages with dynamically generated forms divided into sections:

> <form>
> <div id="div_section_name">
> <table class="formtable">
> <tr><td>label</td><td>input field, dropdown or checkbox</td><td>range info about the field</td></tr>
> </table>
> <div id="div_section2_name">
> <table class="formtable">
> <tr><td>label</td><td>input field, dropdown or checkbox</td><td>range info about the field</td></tr>
> </table>
> </div>
The sections and elements in the sections are configurable. My goal is to pull out all of the form elements and test the error/changed processing on each, using the ranges in the <td> next to them for the text fields.

What's hanging me up is that getting the count of //tables[@class='formtable'] doesn't tell me how to get to each of those tables. What am I missing? Since the tables are each in divs they are actually all table[1]; there are other divs on the page outside of the form so they aren't eay to access by number.

Any hints would be greatly appreciated!!

Judy

[Judy]

Yes, the div ID's are dynamically generated. But I realized that the Divs I cared about are all direct children of the only form. So I could iterate through the divs if I specifed they were direct children of the form after getting the count of the tables I cared about:

> tableCount = get_xpath_count( "//table[\@class='formtable']" )
>
> foreach my $tbl ( 1..$tableCount ){
> assign_id( "//form[1]//div\[ $tbl \]//table\[1\]", "unique_tmp_id" )
>
> use unique_tmp_id to access all the parts of each table easily.
> }