ends-with in xpath is not working

[ARK Satyanarayana Raju]

Hi,

I have written code to verify google logo is displayed or not in google homepage.

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//img[contains(@src, 'logo11w.png')]")).isDisplayed();

The above snippet is working fine. But if I use ends-with in xpath, It is throwing InvalidSelectorException.

I have tried below xpath:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//img[ends-with(@src, 'logo11w.png')]")).isDisplayed();

Whats wrong with ends-with?

I am using FF36, Selenium-45.

Thanks,

Raju

[sunny sachdeva]

ends-with function is available for Xpath 2.0 and usually browsers lib uses xpath 1.0

You can either use contains or use substring function ...

Thanks

Sunny

[tulsi.tester]

Hi ARK,

As most of the web browsers support only xpath 1.0, we cannot use the endswith function which belongs to xpath 2.0 version. If you really looking for the same, here is the work around

<input name='firstname'>

I am trying to find whether it ends with 'name' or not

//input['name'=substring(@name,5,8)]

On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 3:28:47 PM UTC+5:30, ARK Satyanarayana Raju wrote:

[A R K Satyanarayana Raju]

Thanks to all,

I have achieved this using 

//div[substring(@title, string-length(@title) - 2) = 'gle']

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[Rahul Shah]

what if name attribute in element do not have fix length?

[Dmitri T]

For instance, you have the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<something>

<label id="Ravi is a bad developer, he needs to be a barista"/>

<label id="Ajay is a bad tester, he needs to be a barista"/>

<label id="John is a good developer, he needs an appraisal"/>

</something>

If you need to match only those labels which end with "barista" you can use something like:

//label[substring(@id,string-length(@id) - string-length('barista')+1,string-length(@id))='barista']/@id

Demo:

References:

• XPath Tutorial
• XPath 1.0 Language Reference
• Using the XPath Extractor in JMeter
  

[Divya Harirajan]

Can you please explain this line?