Extracting an Id from html table response in jmeter

Question

I need to extract an Id (100000010) in an html response which is a table as shown below:

<tr>
<tr>
<td>
<B>
100000010
</B>
</td>
</tr>
</tr>

Following xpath extractor to get this:

//*[@id="screenlet_1_col"]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[1]/b

which is exactly what chrome gave me. But I am not able to get the value in the variable in XPath extractor.

Any help?

Your HTML is no HTML (there should not be nested `` tags) and does not match to your query. Have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18241029/why-does-my-xpath-query-scraping-html-tables-only-work-in-firebug-but-not-the and build the expression on your own / match it to the original HTML (or better, to the tree it will be parsed). — Jens Erat, Nov 25 '13 at 09:59
What about '//*[@id="screenlet_1_col"]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[1]/b/text()'? — olyv, Nov 26 '13 at 12:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 25 '13 at 20:28

0

Try using CSS/JQuery extractor, to give you the expression you need to show the full HTML. It seems based on XPath you only show part of HTML code.

answered Nov 25 '13 at 20:28

UBIK LOAD PACK

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 26 '13 at 13:38

XPath extractor with default settings will work for valid XML or XHTML only.

If your document isn't XML-compliant you'll need to check "Use Tidy" box in your XPath Extractor

Small example:

Given following test plan structure:

Thread Group with 1 thread and 1 loop
HTTP Request to "google.com" host with "/" path and parameter "q" = "test" (or whatever)
Xpath Extractor with "Reference Name" = "link" and "Xpath query" = "//a"

will give you nothing on default as Google Search Results Page isn't valid XHTML.

But when you set "Use Tidy" you'll get all links as JMeter Variables with "link_" prefix like

link_1=something
link_2=something else
link_3=....

Hope this helps

2 Answers2