How to get All Text in robot framework ?

Question

Consider the following source code,

<div id="groupContainer" class="XXXXXX">

<ul id="GroupContactListWrapper" class="list-wrapper">
    <li class="contactNameItemContainer">

        <div class="contactNameItem">
            <span class="name">Name1</span>
        </div>

    </li>
    <li class="contactNameItemContainer">

        <div class="contactNameItem">
            <span class="name">Name2</span>
        </div>

    </li>
</ul>

</div>

How do i retreive the two names (Name1,Name2) in a list variable ? I tried the following xpath for a "Get Text" keyword, but only returns the first one.

//div[@id='groupContainer']//li[@class='contactNameItemContainer']//span

Please suggest

Answer 1

You could iterate over the elements as below:

${xpath}=    Set Variable    //div[@id='groupContainer']//li[@class='contactNameItemContainer']//span
${count}=    Get Matching Xpath Count    ${xpath}
${names}=    Create List
:FOR    ${i}    IN RANGE    1    ${count} + 1
\    ${name}=    Get Text    xpath=(${xpath})[${i}]
\    Append To List    ${names}    ${name}

This works but is rather slow when there are many matches.