how to use xpath for the following case

Question

.//*[@id='colDiv_Apr282014']/div[5]/div[1]
.//*[@id='colDiv_Apr282014']/div[9]/div[1]
.//*[@id='colDiv_Apr282014']/div[11]/div[1]

In the xpath above, you can see the value inside the first div-is getting changed everytime. ts not constant. I want to use a comman xpath format for the above case so that I can execute the test cases 20 times. How can this be done?

Following is the screenshot of how the page looks.

Answer 1

This is not an answer, but I cannot comment yet, so please no downvotes. :-)

There were few views of this question, no answers, and unlikely any answer is coming. See:

• Best Practices for Selenium locators prefers to use ID, Name or CSS over XPATH.
• This locator comparison says XPATH is slower and brittle, especially in IE.

So non-answer is: "don't do that" :-)

Can you change page/ask it to be changed?

Answer 2

driver.findElements(.//*[@id='colDiv_Apr282014']/div). It has to be findElements with 's' on end. That way You will get list of element. When filter obtained result if some not meet expected criteria.

Answer 3

Try with

.//*[@id='colDiv_Apr282014']//div[contains(concat(' ',normalize-space(@class),' '),' time ')]