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Locating Strategies- (By XPath)

• XPath is a language used for locating nodes in XML documents.
• XPath can be used as a substitute when you don’t have a suitable id or name attribute for the element you want to locate.
• XPath allows you to select individual elements, attributes, and some other part of XML documents for specifying location of a particular web element.

In WebDriver, the Java syntax for locating elements through XPath can be written as:

However, there are different ways of writing dynamic XPaths such as:

1. Using Single Slash
2. Using Double Slash
3. Using Single Attribute
4. Using Multiple Attribute
5. Using AND
6. Using OR
7. Using contains()
8. Using starts_with()
9. Using text()
10. Using last()