XPath2 Assertion

Part of the Assertions category. Also documented in context in the full Component Reference.

The XPath2 Assertion tests a document for well formedness. Using “/” will match any well-formed document, and is the default XPath2 Expression. The assertion also supports boolean expressions, such as “count(//*error)=2”.

Some sample expressions:

• //title[text()='Text to match'] - matches <title>Text to match</title> anywhere in the response
• /title[text()='Text to match'] - matches <title>Text to match</title> at root level in the response

Name	Required	Description
Namespaces aliases list	No	List of namespaces aliases you want to use to parse the document, one line per declaration. You must specify them as follow: prefix=namespace. This implementation makes it easier to use namespaces than with the old XPathExtractor version.
XPath2 Assertion	Yes	XPath to match in the document.
Invert assertion	No	Will fail if xpath expression returns true or matches, succeed otherwise
Namespace aliases list	No	List of namespace aliases prefix=full namespace (one per line)

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