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M_McDonald
Super Contributor
15 years ago

Simple way to get Xpath Match expression to return "" instread of "null"?

When I have empty elements in a request response, an XPath expression for that element evaluates to a "null" in an Xpath Match assertion. Where I want that to match an empty string I've been doing ...
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M_McDonald
Super Contributor
15 years ago
OK, see attached.

As you can see in the background, the element is empty. The actual result of the xpath is "null" but the expected result is empty (normally I would have some  property that resolves to an empty string in the Expected Result field.)

I get around this possibility by using if/then/else

[tt:1rrfulbt]if(//Results[1]/ResultSet[1]/Row[1]/AGE[1]/text())
then //Results[1]/ResultSet[1]/Row[1]/AGE[1]/text()
else ""[/tt:1rrfulbt]

but I wondered if there was a simpler way to handle this (like a ternary expression) or if an "ifnull" option could be added to cover these situations.