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7 years ago

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XMLCheckpoints lack the flexibility we need. Is XPath available in Desktop (not Web!)?

We have a Desktop application system that passes XML messages between components. Thus far, we have found the XMLCheckpoint mechanism to be useful some of the time, but many times it is not. Is the...

TanyaYatskovska
7 years ago
Hi clay,

Refer to the following article - it contains great examples of how you can work with XML from script. You will need to call the selectNodes function with the desired XPath expression.

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/advanced/working-with-external-data-sources/files/xml.html

TanyaYatskovska

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7 years ago

Hi clay,

Refer to the following article - it contains great examples of how you can work with XML from script. You will need to call the selectNodes function with the desired XPath expression.

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/advanced/working-with-external-data-sources/files/xml.html

clay

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7 years ago

Thanks, Tanya. This should suffice for what we are doing. I wonder if it would be possible to incorporate XPath queries directly into XMLCheckpoints? That would be a good thing :-)

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