xpath string concatenation function
Bug #571303 reported by
edA-qa
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Fix Committed
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Bug Description
The string() function in xpath just considers the first node (and its children) in a node-set. There are many cases where a concatenated result is desired instead.
For example, say you wish to get all the nodes following a particular <br/> node. You can easily specify the nodes you want like:
//br/following-
but string() will just take the first once. What we want is a concat function which takes the string() conversion of all of the nodes. Since the TypeConvert class can already do string() conversion the implementation of such a concat should be trivial.
set %Result% as concat //br/following-
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| edA-qa (eda-qa) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in testplan: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| milestone: | none → testplan-1-0-r6 |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| edA-qa (eda-qa) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in testplan: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
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Thinking about it the function need not even be related to Xpath, it could simply concatenate any iterable list relying on string conversion for those items.