Questions tagged [xpath]
The primary purpose of XPath is to address parts of an XML document. It also provides basic facilities for manipulation of strings, numbers and booleans. XPath uses a compact, non-XML syntax. XPath operates on the abstract, logical structure of an XML document, rather than its surface syntax.
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Imposter - xPath not valid for capture?
The docs have this example:
- path: "/users"
method: POST
capture:
petName:
xPath: "/env:Envelope/env:Body/pets:animal/pets:name"
store: testStore
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I am getting "org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException" this error while performing actions on calender
I am getting "org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException" this error while performing actions on calender
I am trying to perform actions on the calender popup screen (Selecting ...
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Clarification about how 'Relative XPath' actually work? [duplicate]
I've read a lot of documents related to Absolute Xpath and Relative XPath, but I still have no idea how Relative XPath works, for Absolute Path, an element can be found from the root based on the ...
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Get result with Xpath Expression to be used in java code
I'm unsure why I am not receiving a result for the xpath expression in the image below. I am trying to select the <circle> tag to execute a test step in my Selenium Java test script. I have ...
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XPath 1.0 predicate with number function doesn't match all nonzero values in XSLT input
I'm using the xsltproc command and getting unexpected output from a predicate using the number() function. I'm trying to use number()'s output as a boolean, with 0 treated as false and all other ...
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How to get Tag inner text and Attribute value in the same loop and row HtmlAgilityPack C#
Following is the HTML i am working on; (C# project)
</TR>
<TR>
`<TD ALIGN="center"> <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="f0" VALUE="14652 4-76-...
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XPath search with text containing soft hyphen
/div[contains(text(),"Inverter")]
This is the code that we currently used to map some objects in selenium with xpath. The problem now is, that they introduced soft hyphens now into their ...
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How to fix "XPath syntax error: Invalid expression" when using etree.XPath in Python while using union operator "|"
I'm trying to compile an XPath expression using etree.XPath in Python, but I'm encountering a syntax error. Here's the code snippet:
XPATH = '//bridge-domain/(bridge-domain-group-name|bridge-domain-...
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How to register default NS in libxml2 for C++?
Question: What is the correct way to register the default NS for XPath context?
I've gone through numerous posts (mostly non-C++ and Google search) about registering NS, but I cannot find anything for ...
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Sign in - Google accounts (choose a account) - Cant seem to be able to click the account (python selenium)
Its the page where you choose which account to login with on a website. I have a hard time clicking the account element. I have no idea if im writing the wrong path or it has something to do with a ...
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Selenium XPATH for Google general search - how to improve results
I wrote a Python program to run a Google search for each company name in an Excel sheet. However, I get a lot more search results when manually searching the company names up on google.
I suspect it's ...
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injection on second user fails
I am trying to execute an xpath injection in golang, I am at the point where I can extract data through the injection from the first user in the xml file ' or position()=1]/*[2]|/a['. However from the ...
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XPath with nested condition using outside element value
My XPath foo is not yet good enough to figure out how to do the following.
I have an XML that's similar to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<books>...
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Add column name as XML node and join with other table
I am trying to query table column names as values of the XML Nodes and in the same node add values from the other table. I have found a code in other post that can create nodes from column names but I'...
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How do I get text in Selenium when the text isn't neatly enclosed within a tag?
<td data-title="Docket No.">"3228"
<div class="cursor-pointer expand-collapse-container expand-document-name">
<div class="expand-arrow&...
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Extracting the text between span tags in a Javascript-rendered page using Selenium in Python
I am trying to scrape all instances of text between tags with a particular class on a web page that dynamically updates. I am using selenium with a chrome WebDriver in Python.
In a normal browser, ...
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How can I add additional tagged vlans when using virt-install to create a guest?
I'm unable to figure out the XPath syntax to add a second tagged vlan when using virt-install to provision a guest:
srv01:~$ sudo virt-install\
--name=ds-controller01.iwc.ig24\
--disk source.dev=/...
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Extract all data inside g tag of JS chart using Selenium
I am currently trying to scrape a local web page, generated by my EV charger. I access it through it's IP address, which requires me to sign in.
After signing in, I want to retrieve the data from the ...
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Postgresql - XML- Processing xpath with date comparission
I have ingested XML file in Postgresql DB and I trying to perform XPATH operation on the field with date comparison but it is not working. From Postgresql official site I found out that Postgresql ...
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click() method from element object (HtmlUnit) is doing nothing
I am trying to crawl on this website: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/Apidog.shtml using html unit.
I want to "click" on "Download now" button, it ...
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Handle submenu items from a drodown
I want to locate the elements from sub menu
i am trying to locate print but couldn't. how can i fix this?
My code
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("https://www.flipkart....
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Virtualizing XML-based API using WireMock
I'm trying to virtualize an XML-based API using WireMock and generate a JSON response using wiremock standalone jar. The requirement is to copy a tag value from the XML request payload to the JSON ...
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A condition on whether an element exists with Python Selenium
I am trying to capture a text from an element which might have two XPaths, but I can't make it happen.
I have tried all of the below methods with no luck and I'm getting this error when running my ...
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find an element by Xpath using selenium Java
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui....
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XSLT - Find most recently _closed_ prior element
xslt 1.0 I am afraid. I have access to exslt. I am otherwise looking to try to avoid using extension functions.
I need to find the most recently CLOSED xslt element of a particular type, rather than ...
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Read values into a List<string> or DataTable from a Agnostic Grid using Selenium C#
I'm trying to read an Agnostic Grid on a web page using selenium c# and want to store the Text based on the column name. I'm not that great fan of DataTable so I preferred List over DT.
Problem: The ...
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XPath Python Error: The 'list' object has no attribute 'xpath'
I'm brand new to Python and web scraping and cannot figure out what is wrong with my code for the life of me. Is it because I'm scraping just one element and not a list? I've checked my XPaths so many ...
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How to parse XML in Google Sheet?
This URL
https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=2308.05734 contains the xml below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom&...
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How to get parent element by the contents of two child elements?
I have a list of events with the following contents:
<div class="all-ebents">
<div class="sport-base-event">
<span class="event-block-current-...
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How to properly concatenate multiple XPaths and how to add spaces between them?
I'm trying to create my own personalized RSS Feed for an Italian institutional site. The site in question is this, belonging to an Italian municipality. The idea would be to use the PolitePol online ...
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How to find xpath to be used for panos arbritary code execution?
I used burpsuite to retrieve the requests by intercepting it but I do not see xpath instead, i see xpathid.
I am not sure if the xpath is /system-general/login-banner, since it gave an error message:
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xmllint --xpath for <rdf:RDF><channel><title>
I have looked through every answer in these first three search pages and cannot get a solution; after page 2 questions aren't even relevant.
In this RSS feed:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding=...
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XPath doesn't take any effect without throwing any errors
I want to make a button in 2 of our views only visible to users of a specific group. In the sale.order view everything works as intended. There is similar view in the account.move model which I ...
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Cannot extract element xpath from docx
With python-docx-oss I use the following code (I want to write the Heading 3 style to a TXT file and include only the outline/level of numbering that is level 3, i.e. x.x.x):
from docx import Document
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XPath for colspan attribute values as browser understands them?
I have a HTML table with possibly missing or malformed colspan values:
<table border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>A</th> <th>B</th> <th>C</...
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HTML XPATH, get aunt/uncle html
I was able to get access to the tag that contained CSCI 12
"//span[contains(., '" + CSCI + "') and contains(., '" + 12 + "')]"
but im stuck trying to access the parents ...
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How to get an attribute as an integer >= 1 with XPath?
Consider this input:
<tr>
<td />
<td rowspan="3" />
<td rowspan="-2" />
<td rowspan="*8#%@!" />
<...
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How can I iterate through a table using selenium using XPATH to click a button that has the same XPATH in each row?
I am trying to scrape all the history information for some results in a table online. To do this, I need to click the "History" button on each row, which redirects to another page, then ...
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Unable to click an element and scrape web using xpath and id- selenium
I have been trying to create a code to select an element on a web page- https://tmrsearch.ipindia.gov.in/eregister/ using xpath and element id with the help of Selenium library. I have mentioned two ...
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fn:parse-json and NUL bytes in XPath
I know that XML doesn't allow NUL bytes in it, but I though that it would somehow work with JSON:
parse-json("""\u0000""") => serialize(map{"method": "...
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Programmatically generate an array containing `null` values with XPath 3.1
I have a map representing a gaped array; the keys being the indexes of the array:
let $m := map{1: "val1", 2: "val2", 5: "val5", 7: "val7"} return
Now I would ...
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How to create a correct XPath for this site?
I have this website https://firenze.bakeca.it/annunci/tutte-le-categorie/luogo/Fucecchio/ from which I would like to gather information. The information I need is the price, the links, the description,...
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XPath not handling self-closing tags
I am trying to make an XPath path to describe a node in html. This node contains a self-closing tag and that is making my XPath not work. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug in the xml2 ...
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Selenium XPath: How do I click on the Load More button
I'm trying to scrape job listings on a career page. I'm trying to click the load more button, but cant seem to figure it out. i was wondering if someone could help me out -- I keep getting an error ...
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XML output from SQL Server based on header and details
I have these table values:
ID
MARKS
TOTALMARKS
SUBJECT
CODE
3789
15
40
Science
SC
3789
25
40
Math
M
3932
14
48
Science
SC
3932
34
48
Social
SO
3957
42
42
Math
M
4871
11
31
Eng
E
4871
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31
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XPath expression for finding subsequent elements that have the same tag name
Here is a sample XML:
<Body>
<Subsection lims:inforce-start-date="2018-12-15" lims:fid="170842" lims:id="170842">
<MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date=&...
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How to locate an element by Xpath/CSS selectors using Playwright
How to locate an element by Xpath/CSS selectors using Playwright TS/JS?
There are many locators in Playwright (in comparison to Selenium)
such as getByRole and getByText.
Is there any locator like ...
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Result throw Namespace prefix 'ext' is not defined
I tried to add XmlDsigXPathTransform to reference but the code signedXml.ComputeSignature() throws an error
Namespace prefix 'ext' is not defined
This is the code:
//Generate the xmlDoc
AXG_Invoice....
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How to troubleshoot XPath not finding elements on a web page?
I am using a Bash script to search a web page with a specific XPath expression:
# Define variables for the URL and browser
sGDomain="idealista"
sGCitta="fucecchio-firenze"
sGTypo=&...
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How to generate a JSON string with XPath 3.1
I have some text in a node, for example:
<xml><Hello world "&" foo bar></xml>
I would like to process string(/xml) and JSON-escape it so that the result ...
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