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HTML Page parsing fails with certain Tag

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Roman asked on 20 Oct 2011, 11:30 AM

Hi

I just found an odd example where a Page cannot be parsed correctly and therefore, the Find.ByXXX fails with an exception!

Here's a very simple html of a page which fails:

<html>

<head><title>Test</title></head>

<body>

Hello<b. xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">World</b.>

</body>

</html>

I know that this is an invalid Tag but shouldn't it be ignored instead of leading to exceptions when using the browser object?

Here's the C# code which leads to the exception:

Manager myManager = new Manager(false);

myManager.Start();

myManager.LaunchNewBrowser(BrowserType.InternetExplorer);

Browser browser = myManager.ActiveBrowser;

browser.NavigateTo("test.html");

Find finder = browser.Find;

string findPath = @"//li[@id='tab_CarsAndBikesTechnicalDetails1']/a";

Element foundElement = finder.ByName(findPath) ?? finder.ById(findPath);

And here's the exception I get:
Find Details:
- FindParam used: [Find logic: Use 'AttributesOnly' where (name=//li[@id='tab_CarsAndBikesTechnicalDetails1']/a) ]
- Start Element: [Element: '#text#:-1']
and the Inner exception is:
Start reference has to be a valid element and not an EndTag
Parameter name: Reference

Is there any possibility that such an invalid tag is ignored instead of leading to such exceptions?

Thanks for Help
Roman

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HTML Page parsing fails with certain Tag

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