[Wtr-general] Problem with element_by_xpath?

Fri Sep 15 14:32:21 EDT 2006

Hi folks.

I am having a problem getting element_by_xpath to work cleanly.

Windoze XP pro

Ruby 1.8.5 - One click installer.

Watir 1.5.1.1081 - gem install

Rexml 3.1.5 

I've attached by browser to google.com.

>From irb :

elem=ie.element_by_xpath("//text_field[@name=q]")

returns

REXML::ParseException: #<Iconv::IllegalSequence: "\n< <SNIP>....

...

</SNIP>

Line:

Position:

Last 80 unconsumed characters:

 <HTML> <body  text="#000000" vLink="#551a8b" aLink="#ff0000" link="#0000cc" bgCo

        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/parsers/treeparser.rb:89:in `parse'

        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:190:in `build'

        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:45:in `initialize'

        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.1.1081/./Watir.rb:1990:in `new'

        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.1.1081/./Watir.rb:1990:in `create_rexml_document_object'

        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.1.1081/./Watir.rb:1972:in `rexml_document_object'

        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.1.1081/./Watir.rb:2174:in `elements_by_xpath'

        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.1.1081/./Watir.rb:2167:in `element_by_xpath'

Should I try a different Watir gem version?  Other suggestions?

Thanks

-Alan

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