[Webtest] "storeRegEx" not working on dynamic content

[Rolf Koehl]

Hi Dierk, hi Marc,
thanks for your helpfull responses. I got it working.

Rolf

Marc Guillemot wrote:
> Note it is easy to develop own xpath functions to use in xpath
> expressions. Furthermore the XPath 2 function "matches" that works with
> regular expression is already available in the namespace "wt" (yes, yes,
> I know, I have to write a doc about that).
>
> Marc.

> > Hm. storeXPath works on the DOM (of course) while storeRegex works the
> > plain text that the server sends back. All AJAX stuff happens on the
> > DOM.
> > 
> > You require that storeRegEx would need to grab the current DOM, transfer it
> > into
> > text and work from there. Such a text would be necessarily _very_
> > different from the original text, which would break a huge number
> > of tests out there. The purpose of all regex steps is to
> > enable the tester to work on the (possibly malicious) raw content.
> > 
> > For your purpose I would advice to either make a custom step like
> > outlined above, or use XPath and Regex in combination.
> > 
> > hope that helps
> > Dierk
> > 
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>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: webtest-admin@lists.canoo.com
>> >> [mailto:webtest-admin@lists.canoo.com]On Behalf Of Rolf Koehl
>> >> Sent: Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 17:32
>> >> To: webtest@lists.canoo.com
>> >> Subject: [Webtest] "storeRegEx" not working on dynamic content
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi guys,
>> >>
>> >> analyzing a dynamic page (a part of its content is loaded via Ajax), I
>> >> realized that
>> >> "storeXPath" works on the dynamic content as desired. Instead "storeRegEx"
>> >> seems to work only on static content.
>> >>
>> >> I'm wrong or is it the way it's working?
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >> Rolf
>> >>
>> >>
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