In order to click, select, type text in HTML elements, they need to be found first.
I have created a few different expressions that identify the same element of a page.
This is how to find the element matched in the next examples:
1. open www.vpl.ca
2. search for cats
3. identify the title link for the 7th result
Please click on the images from below to see them full screen.
//div[@id='bib1921954038']//span[@class='title']/a
/html/body/div[5]/div[7]/div/div/div[3]/form/div[3]/div/div[8]/div[2]/div/span[@class='title']/a
(//span[@class='title']/a)[last()-2]
(//span[@class='title']/a)[8]
//a[contains(@title, 'Book') and contains(@href, '1921954038_cats')]
All expressions do the same thing in different ways.
They are presented only to highlight the flexibility and power of XPATH.
From all 5 example expressions, the only one that I would use in my projects is the 3rd one.
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