[Webtest] iteration over all links in a page

[Brian Hubbard]

Hi,
 Um, yes that is exactly what I was looking for !!

 Many, many, thanks,
  Brian

Quoting Marc Guillemot <mguillemot@yahoo.fr>:

> What about verifyLinks?
> http://webtest.canoo.com/manual/syntax.html#verifyLinks
>
> Marc.
>
> Brian Hubbard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  I want to be able to check that all the links on a web page have valid
> links.
> >  As the pages are generated automatically the number and urls must be
> discovered
> > in the page itself.
> >  I have attempted to do this with a combination of storexpath and repeat,
> í.e.
> >
> >  <steps>
> >   <invoke ...>
> >   <storexpath xpath="count(//a/@href)" property="n_links"/>
> >   <repeat count="#{n_links}">
> >    <storexpath xpath="//a[#{count}+1]/@href" property="link"/>
> >    <invoke url="#{link}/">
> >   <repeat/>
> >  <steps/>
> >
> >  This gets the number of links correctly, but the xpath //a[n] fails for
> > anything other than 1. My understanding is that //a[1]/@href should return
> the
> > first value of href for the first occurance of the tag "a", //a[2]/@href
> should
> > return the value for the second "a" tag within the document and so on.
> >
> >  Why doesn't this work?
> >  Is there a better way to achieve this?
> >
> >  Thanks in Advance,
> >   Brian
> >
> >
> >
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