element_by_xpath troubles

[keneda 45]

Hi every one, I'm french beginner in vapir, I use vapir because we
have a lot of special characters and vapir let me to insert them. My
problem is : I have a script which was right with watir but when I
adapt this one under vapir, it didn't worked!

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require 'vapir-firefox'



browser = Vapir::Browser.start "http://www.google.fr/"

#
browser.text_field(:name,"q").set("ruby")
#
browser.button(:value,"Recherche Google").click
#
puts browser.element_by_xpath("//a[@class=’l']").text


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someone can test this script and help me to understand and resolve the
problem?

thanks a lot. Cheers

[Ethan]

element_by_xpath isn't the correct API - it's an internal method of watir (absent in vapir). use :xpath as the 'how' argument to get an element:

browser.element(:xpath, "//a[@class=’l']").text

or, in a manner more in keeping with the watir api, something like:

browser.link(:class, "l").text

[widizign société]

ok, thank you a lot, I understand but when I use browser.div(:xpath, "//a[@class=’l']").text, it doesn't work too. Do you think vapir will be able to integrate methods like element_by_xpath oneday?
cheers

2011/2/11 Ethan <note...@gmail.com>

[Ethan]

element_by_xpath is not what you want in either case. 

You are specifying mutually exclusive criteria: in your xpath you are specifying an <a> element but you are using the #div method which will only return <div> elements. Please see the examples I provided; either one should work.