I'm using htmlagility pack to locate elements in large loops through tables because its much faster than using the native methods provided through webdriver.
After locating a specific element through the looping I'm getting its xpath, then feeding that to webdriver to return an element.
However I'm getting an exception;
OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException: FindElementByXPath.
//html[1]//body[1]//mpns:multipage[1]//mpns:pageview[1]//table[1]//
[Test]
[Browser(BrowserType.IE)]
public void Simple_HtmlAgility_Xpath()
{
Browser.GoTo("http://test/");
Browser.Login().Login_Admin();
using (Browser.SwitchToFrame("main"))
{
var html = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
html.LoadHtml(Browser.PageSource);
var node = html.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//table[@id='testtable']");
var xpath = node.XPath.Replace("/", "//");
Log.Debug(xpath);
var element = Browser.FindElement(By.XPath(xpath));
Log.Debug(element.Text);
}
}
an example of the page;
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>Welcome</title>
</HEAD>
<body>
<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX="MPNS" /><?IMPORT NAMESPACE="MPNS" IMPLEMENTATION="/webctrl_client/1_0/multipage.htc" />
<MPNS:MultiPage id="test1">
<MPNS:PageView>
<table width="100%" id="testtable">
<tr>
<td>TEST</td>
</tr>
</table>
</MPNS:PageView>
</MPNS:MultiPage>
</body>
</HTML>