apostroph in RxPath

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apostroph in RxPath

Post by jabelshauser » Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:45 am

how can an accessiblename which contains an apostroph used with RxPath?

attached a snaphot.
The Spy resolves this Element in different ways, this is incomprehensible
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Re: apostroph in RxPath

Post by Ciege » Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:24 pm

Not sure why you got the 2 different XPaths in Spy, but both are correct.

The second one is just using a RegEx that has the "special" characters escaped.

You can tailor the XPath to you liking using and valid RegEx so that it is more readable and reusable for you.
If this or any response has helped you, please reply to the thread stating that it worked so other people with a similar issue will know how you fixed your issue!

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Re: apostroph in RxPath

Post by Support Team » Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:33 pm

Hello,

The second path works since the single quote is escaped with another quote.
You could also use the following path to get your item:

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/form[@controlname='ContainerForm']//treeitem[@accessiblename='Device''s Signal Level too high']
It looks like that you saved a snapshot of your TreeItem and opened it afterwards.
At first, your TreeItem could be identified by its index since there are several TreeItems found.
Then, the TreeItem couldn't be found by its index but by its accessiblename instead.
That is the reason, why the RxPath of your element has changed.

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Markus (T)