I have an XPath query which needs to match some text in a span attribute, as follows:
my $perl_query = qq(span[text\(\)='It's a problem']);
$sel->click_ok($perl_query);
Where the text has no apostrophe there is no problem.
I've tried the following instead of 'It's a problem':
'It\'s a problem'
'It&apos\;s a problem'
'It\${apos}s a problem' #some thread on Stackoverflow suggested that this was a solution implemented by Selenium, but it doesn't work.
Any ideas?
On a different note, if I can't solve this, I'd be happy enough matching 'a problem' but not sure how to do regex matching in XPath with Selenium.
Thanks for any pointers
It's an XPath problem rather than the Perl problem.
The problem was discussed and answered here in great detail: http://kushalm.com/the-perils-of-xpath-expressions-specifically-escaping-quotes (broken link)
In a nutshell, modify your xquery to assemble the quote-containing string using concat()
my $perl_query = qq(span[text\(\)=concat("It","'","s a problem"]);