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XPath - verify contents of @title

Background info of my question:
I am working in FitNesse, and usually I can use CSS selectors to find and verify the elements I want. However, in this case I need to check a @title attribute through XPath, and I'm having trouble doing so.

My FitNesse scenario is something like this:

| ensure | do | verifyText | on | !-xpath statement to the @title attribute here-! | with | @the_title_I_expect

This means that I need to find an XPath to the @title element to verify it, not have the @title with content in my XPath expression.

Can someone help me out?

Example:

<th id="scollTable.titleRow.column2" title="**This is my title**" colspan="1" scope="col" class="detailTableHeader">Some text here I don't care about</th>

I would like to check the text 'This is my title' for validity. Any pointers? Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • You are using Xebium? I believe they have (actually the Selenium 1 API they use has) a command verifyAttribute that you can use to check attributes instead of the text of the element. (A quick google gave me this example page.)

    So I believe your row would become:

    | ensure | do | verifyAttribute | on | xpath=//th[@id='scollTable.titleRow.column2']@title| with | !-**This is my title**-!|

    P.S. I'm not very familiar with Xebium but I believe you can rewrite such a line to a check instead of an ensure so that your test report will show you the actual title when the test fails, instead of just reporting 'failed'.