Test Object with xpath selector using matches() function never works

[kazurayam]

All I can do is to show you some workaounds.

Alternative to the XPath2.0 matches() function:

Using regex to find the id

Alternative to Regexp, you can use XPath expression: You can select a div element with id=“Donors_1233klf323sd_Ti” by the following xpath: //div[starts-with(@id, "Donors_") and substring(@id, string-length(@id) - string-length('_Ti')+1)="_Ti"]

Alternative to the XPath2.0 ends-with() function:

Customizing xpath generation

Write a Groovy code which creates a Test Object on the fly. It will read an existing Test Object with xpath //button[@id=‘staticId1:dynamicId:staticId2’]/span It will translate the xpath into another one like //button[starts-with(@id,'staticId1') and ends-with(@id,'staticId2')]/span Then it will create a new Test Object using the generated xpath. XPath2.0 ends-with() function is not available to us. But alternative (very verbose) xpath expression can do the same query Let me work out for a…

In many cases (simple cases), the contains function of XPath 1.0 is useful, can be an alternative to matches function of XPath 2.0:

XPath in Selenium: How to Find & Write? (Text, Contains, AND)