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Getting error message while trying to get a count from the page using Get_WebElement methog

Vitaly Melnik

June 03, 2020 22:35

I started getting error message "INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An invalid or illegal XML character is specified." while trying to get a count from the page using Get_Web_Value method. This step was working before with no issues. We just upgraded Subject7 to version 8.13. XPath works as expected in the Developers Tool and returns count "15" as can be seen in the screenshot (count(//*[@class="list-group data-list-group scrolling-data-list-group"]/li))

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Joseph Hamdan June 04, 2020 13:00

Hi Vitaly,

Could you please send the URL where you used this command to perform a count?

Regards,

Subject7 Team

Vitaly Melnik June 04, 2020 15:34

Joseph,

This is not publicly available application and still in development. I just checked and this method works fine on other pages but it returns error specifically on the page i need to test. I think this issue is on the page. I'll check with developers.

Thank you,

Vitaly Melnik June 08, 2020 15:53

Spoke with developer and he can't find anything related to XML on the page or in the code. Any ideas why this specific error may be thrown by the Proof tool? What behind the scene in your code could be requesting XML to do some kind of validation? Where this character error could occur? Any suggestions, because we kinda stuck?

Vitaly Melnik June 09, 2020 14:12

Updates. Developer find some extra characters in the HTML code. There was no issue on the front end but I guess Proof tool could not parse the code and was giving this error. Now it works as expected.

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