Selenium & Default Namespaces

kotlusa Mar 3, 2008 4:47 PM

Hello,

I have an application that was written with Seam 2.0 + IceFaces and recently migrated from IceFaces to RichFaces. All in all, I'm much happier with RichFaces (some better components, performance, etc).

The problem that I am having is that most of my selenium tests don't work anymore. Specifically, any XPath locators don't work because they can't handle the default namespace (in bold):

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Is there anyway to stop the default namespace from being put in the html?

Thank you,
Austin

1. Re: Selenium & Default Namespaces

kotlusa Mar 3, 2008 5:16 PM (in response to kotlusa)

In case anyone else has this issue, the following tag solved the problem for me:

<f:view contentType="text/html"/>

Although this didn't get rid of the default namespace, it did allow Selenium to evaluate the xpath expressions.

Thanks,
Austin
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2. Re: Selenium & Default Namespaces

nbelaevski Mar 3, 2008 7:57 PM (in response to kotlusa)

Austin,

Maybe that url: http://cfis.savagexi.com/trackbacks?article_id=selenium-and-xhtml&day=02&month=08&year=2006 will be helpful in some way
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