how to check the text inside div element by using xpath

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I am completely new to java and I want to check if the text inside div element equals to a specific value by giving the xpath. For example if the text equals to "value 1" the test passes other wise it shows a message. I am not sure how to use assertEquals with xpath. can you give me some hints?

<div id="indicator">value 1 </div>

thanks

Please check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2811001/how-to-read-xml-using-xpath-in-java — Simon Fischer, Sep 29 '14 at 16:28

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 29 '14 at 16:26

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Are you using javascript or jsp?

Any Case is easy, this will return your value:

$("#MyId").val();

In your case it would be:

$("#indicator").val();

answered Sep 29 '14 at 16:26

Cesar Villasana

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Question is tagged "java" – Simon Fischer Sep 29 '14 at 16:28
Yes, But he says he is using Xpath, which is basically javascript, If you can directly do this request using JAVA, let us know.. good luck :) – Cesar Villasana Sep 29 '14 at 16:30
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Xpath is not necessarily Javascript. It's XPath :-) And I guess every reasonable programming language in the world supports it, even Java: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2811001/how-to-read-xml-using-xpath-in-java – Simon Fischer Sep 29 '14 at 16:33
Thanks but my main problem is using assertEqual in java, to check if the return value is true or n ot – user3409650 Sep 29 '14 at 16:40
but do you have the string already in some variable? where you able to get both String to compare? – Cesar Villasana Sep 29 '14 at 16:42

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