From peter at hexagile.com  Sat Jun 11 05:15:01 2011
From: peter at hexagile.com (Peter Szinek)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:15:01 +0200
Subject: [Celerity-users] elements_by_xpath fails completely
Message-ID: <BANLkTin1P33dP13gMoePi5vUTOSE9eeswg@mail.gmail.com>

Hey all,

I noticed this on more sites lately, can dig up more examples if you want.

b = Celerity::Browser.new
b.goto "https://careers-hrblock.icims.com/jobs/search"
irb(main):012:0* b.elements_by_xpath("//html")
=> []
irb(main):013:0> b.elements_by_xpath("//body")
=> []
irb(mai
irb(main):005:0> b.elements_by_xpath("//table")
=> []

yet,

irb(main):016:0> b.elements_by_xpath("//*").size
=> 782

among them html, body, table and other elements. Inspecting b.xml
reveals that the HTML looks like as it should...

Any idea what's going on?

btw. a site from the same portal, with very similar structure
(https://jobs-bannerhealth.icims.com/jobs/search) works just fine...

Cheers,
Peter

From jari.bakken at gmail.com  Sat Jun 11 07:38:05 2011
From: jari.bakken at gmail.com (Jari Bakken)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:38:05 +0200
Subject: [Celerity-users] elements_by_xpath fails completely
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin1P33dP13gMoePi5vUTOSE9eeswg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTin1P33dP13gMoePi5vUTOSE9eeswg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=mWJP13TRrRs0vcfeJpC9Va5joGQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Peter Szinek <peter at hexagile.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I noticed this on more sites lately, can dig up more examples if you want.
>
> b = Celerity::Browser.new
> b.goto "https://careers-hrblock.icims.com/jobs/search"
> irb(main):012:0* b.elements_by_xpath("//html")
> => []
> irb(main):013:0> b.elements_by_xpath("//body")
> => []
> irb(mai
> irb(main):005:0> b.elements_by_xpath("//table")
> => []
>

Looks like something weird in HtmlUnit's XPath implementation - try
asking on their mailing list. Celerity simply calls out to
HtmlPage.getByXpath().