From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-06-17T00:26:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Watir, XML,

Espen Falkevik wrote:
> ...
> # open another browser and get's the xml-file
> ie2 =
> Watir::IE.start("http://10.47.11.217/getxml?location=/Configuration/Audio/Outputs/Headset/Level")
> doc = ie2.document()


What sort of object are you expecting ie2.document() to return?

The call to XPath.first expects a  REXML Document object; the WATIR docs 
really don't say much on this (it only says that document() returns the 
current document. )

But grepping the WATIR source code does not show any references to 
REXML, so it appears you'll need to first convert the IE document or 
content to a REXML Document object.

Calling ie2.html gets you the DOM rendering of the document HTML; it's 
*not* the same as the HTML sent to the browser.  If it is not already 
XML (and imagine it is not) you'll need to fix it up.  Take a  look at 
Michael Neumann's Mechanize library for some ways to do this.  His code 
fetches HTML pages and exposes the content via a nice API over an REXML 
document.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/wee



James
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