normalize-space(.) versus text(.)

normalize-space(.) versus text(.)

Reza Roozbehani Reza Roozbehani

Reza Roozbehani

Software Testing Automation Engineer . Java / Rest Assured / Selenium / Jmeter / TestNG / JavaScript / Api Testing / Oracle / Git / Eclipse / IntelliJ / Maven

发布日期: 2024年3月3日
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if you want to locate a paragraph of text which contains some styling:

<p>A paragraph with <b>this text in bold</b>.</p>

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This will not be matched by the following XPath:

//*[contains(text(), 'A paragraph with this text in bold')]

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Whereas this XPath will match:

//*[contains(normalize-space(.), 'A paragraph with this text in bold')]

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text(.) matches only against the text of the element, whereas normalize-space(.)

returns the text of the element, and of all the elements it contains.

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