[Webtest] Request for comment: Dumping HTML DOM or XPATH

[Healey, Thomas]

Wouldn't setting showhtmlparseroutput=3Dtrue do the trick for you. I =
originally had it turned on for all tests but now use it for debugging =
NS 4.79 problems that doen't appear in IE.

Tom

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[mailto:webtest-admin@lists.canoo.com] On Behalf Of Siegfried G=F6schl
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Subject: RE: [Webtest] Request for comment: Dumping HTML DOM or XPATH


Thanks for the help - I will have a look at it. Originally I thought=20
along the lines parsing the HTML result of Canoo Webtest with=20
NekoHTML, transforming the result into a DOM tree and getting the=20
XPath expression by recursing down to the text nodes - assuming that=20
I have not forgotten to program in Java ... :-)

I implemented something similar with DOM4J a while ago - but I have=20
to make up my mind if this is really useful.=20

My original problem stems from invalid HTML swallowed from NekoHTML -=20
and I need a quick way to detect such problems the next time.

Thanks,

Siegfried Goeschl

On 6 Mar 2003 at 10:05, Dierk Koenig wrote:

> There are some HTML Editors on the market that show local or fetched=20
> HTML as DOM Tree. I searched the web for it and found some. However, I =

> didn't put much time into further evaluation.
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> Carsten mentioned that there also is a solution at mozilla.org that=20
> does this trick.
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> any experiences?
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> cheers
> Mittie
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:webtest-admin@lists.canoo.com]On Behalf Of Siegfried =
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> > Subject: [Webtest] Request for comment: Dumping HTML DOM or XPATH
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> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm currently rolling out Canoo Webtest (i.e. the Maven Plugin) at=20
> > the testing department of Together Teaml=F6sungen.
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> > For simple creation of test scripts a debugging output of the HTML=20
> > DOM (either parsed by JTidy of NekoHTML) or a list of XPath=20
> > expression for the HTML DOM (mapping from XPath to content) would be =

> > helpful.
> >
> > Any ideas or opinions out there?!
> >
> > Thanks in advance ...
> >
> > Siegfried Goeschl
> > CTO
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