Telerik XPATH implementation bug v2

[Martin]

Hi

I wrote a while back about some problems I'm experiencing with Teleriks implementation of xpath. But before i didn't have a live website i could reference, I do now.

HtmlFindExpression h1 = new HtmlFindExpression("xpath=//h1");
.Find.ByExpression(h1)

The above will result in this error:
The ':' character, hexadecimal value 0x3A, cannot be included in a name.

When run against this website:
http://www.tradingfloor.com/posts/central-banks-deliver-end-of-month-boost--1013237813


NOTE:
This works as intended if i check it against Selenium.

[Cody]

Hello,

I have determined this is not a test studio bug. There is something wrong with your website such that the .NET framework is choking on that webpage. I created this pure .NET code to read and parse your website:

// Create the WebRequest object we'll use for sending the request
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://www.tradingfloor.com/posts/central-banks-deliver-end-of-month-boost--1013237813");
request.Method = "GET";

WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
// Verify the status code is OK
Assert.AreEqual<string>("OK", ((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription);

Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(responseStream);

XmlNodeList h1tags = doc.SelectNodes("//h1");
Log.WriteLine("Found " + h1tags.Count.ToString() + " nodes");

This pure .NET code is throwing this error on the doc.Load line:

System.Xml.XmlException: The ';' character, hexadecimal value 0x3B, cannot be included in a name. Line 6, position 263.
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Int32 pos, String res, String[] args)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement()
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)
   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)
   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(Stream inStream)
   at MySampleTests.ScratchTest.ScratchTest_CodedStep() in C:\Users\gibson\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\MySampleTests\MySampleTests\ScratchTest.tstest.cs:line 62

I do not know what/where the problem is but this proves there's some invalid HTML contained on your webpage causing .NET to choke on it. Once you fix your website then the XPath will work as expected.

All the best,
Cody
the Telerik team