Locating elements using XPath
XPath, the XML path language, is a query language for selecting nodes from an XML document. All the major browsers support XPath as HTML pages are represented as XHTML documents in DOM.
The XPath language is based on a tree representation of the XML document and provides the ability to navigate around the tree, selecting nodes using a variety of criteria.
Selenium WebDriver supports XPath for locating elements using XPath expressions or queries.
Locating elements with XPath works very well with a lot of flexibility. However, this is the least preferable locator strategy due its slow performance.
One of the important differences between XPath and CSS is, with XPath we can search elements backward or forward in the DOM ...
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