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xpath
// mozilla ver
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath/Snippets#getXPathForElement
// ver 2
function getPathTo(element) {
if (element.id!=='')
return 'id("'+element.id+'")';
if (element===document.body)
return element.tagName;
var ix= 0;
var siblings= element.parentNode.childNodes;
for (var i= 0; i<siblings.length; i++) {
var sibling= siblings[i];
if (sibling===element)
return getPathTo(element.parentNode)+'/'+element.tagName+'['+(ix+1)+']';
if (sibling.nodeType===1 && sibling.tagName===element.tagName)
ix++;
}
}
// ver 1
function createXPathFromElement(elm) {
var allNodes = document.getElementsByTagName('*');
for (var segs = []; elm && elm.nodeType == 1; elm = elm.parentNode)
{
if (elm.hasAttribute('id')) {
var uniqueIdCount = 0;
for (var n=0;n < allNodes.length;n++) {
if (allNodes[n].hasAttribute('id') && allNodes[n].id == elm.id) uniqueIdCount++;
if (uniqueIdCount > 1) break;
};
if ( uniqueIdCount == 1) {
segs.unshift('id("' + elm.getAttribute('id') + '")');
return segs.join('/');
} else {
segs.unshift(elm.localName.toLowerCase() + '[@id="' + elm.getAttribute('id') + '"]');
}
} else if (elm.hasAttribute('class')) {
segs.unshift(elm.localName.toLowerCase() + '[@class="' + elm.getAttribute('class') + '"]');
} else {
for (i = 1, sib = elm.previousSibling; sib; sib = sib.previousSibling) {
if (sib.localName == elm.localName) i++; };
segs.unshift(elm.localName.toLowerCase() + '[' + i + ']');
};
};
return segs.length ? '/' + segs.join('/') : null;
};
function lookupElementByXPath(path) {
var evaluator = new XPathEvaluator();
var result = evaluator.evaluate(path, document.documentElement, null,XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null);
return result.singleNodeValue;
}
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