XPath expression to be used with importXML - dom

From the website https://www.google.co.uk/finance?cid=704531 I'm trying to import the fields "Range" and "52 week" and the others in that group in the middle. I've looked at XPath and am very confused by it.
In cell A1 I have https://www.google.co.uk/finance?cid=704531.
In cell B1 I have
=importxml(A1,//*[#id="market-data-div"]/div[2]/div[1]/table[1]/tbody/tr[4]/td[1])
But the result is an error.
What's the correct XPath expression for this HTML structure?

Dom and the <tbody/>
It seems you created that XPath expression within Firebug or similar developer tools. While HTML does not require <tbody/> tags, DOM does; and those developer tools work on the DOM and thus wrap the table rows in such an element. You can easily see the difference when looking at the page source (fetched by wget or other tools if necessary) and the structure presented by Firebug.
Just omit the /tbody axis step in your expression:
//*[#id='market-data-div']/div[2]/div[1]/table[1]/tr[4]/td[1]
Anyway, I'd rather go for fetching the cells by the description, which is a little weaker regarding changes on the wording, but much more robust to changes on the structure:
//*[#id='market-data-div']//tr[td = 'Vol / Avg.']/td[2]
Quoting the Expression
A second problem is you have to quote the XPath expression in double quotes, so for example use:
=importxml(A1,"//*[#id='market-data-div']//tr[td = 'Vol / Avg.']/td[2]")

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How can we get value from DOM Properties in JMeter?

I'm trying to record a scenario of SAP CRM.
But I have a problem due to that everytime I login SAP CRM generates a new hashed token and will be used in URL like below:
See Image 1 Here
I tried to check where is the information stored, and in firebug and I found it in DOM tab:
See Image 2 Here
Is there any way to get the value from this DOM Properties using Jmeter?
Usually the choices are in:
CSS/JQuery Extractor
XPath Extractor
Regular Expression Extractor
Choose the one, you're most familiar with. Usually it is Regular Expression Extractor, however parsing HTML with regular expressions is not a good idea, moreover you will be very sensitive to DOM changes (part of the element goes to next line, attributes change positions, etc.).
So I would recommend choosing between CSS and XPath, but choose them wisely. I.e. if the number of styles on the page is not too big - go for CSS, if there are a lot of styles but the DOM itself is not very complicated - choose XPath.

CQ Dialog: Possible to provide placeholder in text?

We have a requirement wherein a section of a page will be part authorable and part dynamic. What I mean by this is "You have 6 visits left out of 16." The 6 and 16 in the sentence are coming from a REST service call but the text "You have...visits left out of.." has to be authorable through dialog. Also, we are using AEM 6.
Thanks in advance
Maybe this solution will help others looking for simple placeholder text for their dialog textfields (OP not so much). Use an emptyText attribute...
<dialogText fieldLabel="AEM CLassic UI Text" jcr:primaryType="cq:Widget"
name="./nameOfText" emptyText="THIS IS THE PLACEHOLDER" xtype="textfield"/>
Perhaps you can start by extending foundation/components/text, where the user would be expected to enter a valid formatable string (i.e. "You have %d visits left out of %d").
In your component you would be implementing text.jsp therefore overriding the default behavior of foundation/components/text, in which you can do something like
<cq:text property="text" escapeXml="true"
placeholder="<%= Placeholder.getDefaultPlaceholder(slingRequest, component, null)%>"
tagName="span"
tagClass="myformatedmessage" />
You use tagName and tagClass which will wind up putting the formattable text in a <span class="myformatedmessage">...</span>. Then use jQuery to find it and populate the format placeholders after getting the data via ajax. All that jQuery code you can probably put into a clientlib folder within the same component you extended.
Based on your description, I think you are looking for replacement or substitution instead of placeholders.
"placeholder" generally refers to display text inside a form input that is displayed until the user enters data in the field (such as hint data).
You generally have 3 options for replacing parts of the data:
Server-side (prevents page from being cacheable in dispatcher). Requires parsing authored content & replace some kind of tags with desired REST data, such as "You have ${x} visits left out of ${y} total". Other ways of "tagging" substitution data could look like "You have %x% visits left out of %y%"
client-side JavaScript DOM manipulation once REST data returns. ie $el.html(newDomContentString)
client-side JavaScript templates (handlebars, dust, etc). Takes more initial setup in JS, but generally scales better.

Why setHTML("<table><tr>..</tr></table>"); but then getHTML(); return "<table><tbody><tr>..</tr></tbody></table>" (Gwt)?

I don't understand how Gwt setHTML & getHTML work. It doesn't seem to be consistent.
Let see this example:
myInlineHtml.setHTML(SafeHtmlUtils.fromSafeConstant("<table><tr><td>Test</td></tr></table>"));
System.out.println(myInlineHtml.getHTML());
Output: "<table><tbody><tr><td>Test</td></tr></tbody></table>"
Clearly when we set the html for myInlineHtml we don't have <tbody></tbody>, but when we getHTML from myInlineHtml then Gwt include <tbody></tbody>.
Why does that's happen because it can be confusing when you want to get the Html value and you thought it has the same value I the time we set it but it hasn't?
Does this happen independently from browsers or dpendently from
browsers? cos that is serious.
This is how HTML is parsed (how browsers are expected to parse it).
In HTML 4, TABLE was defined (in terms of SGML) as requiring a TBODY child element, and that TBODY is defined with both the start and end tags being optional.
In HTML5 (which codifies how browsers actually parse HTML), this is the same: when building a table, if the browser finds a tr, then it inserts a tbody element before parsing the tr as if there were a tbody initially.
Browsers try to format the html properly even if you omit certain keys or parameters. Most modern browsers will accept almost anything you pass it without complaining much, but instead of inserting exactly what you intended, it will interpret what you meant and insert valid HTML.
Therefore, is is perfectly valid to create a table without specifiyng a tbody node, but the browser will supply it for you. Once you use getHTML() you are accessing the parsed, well formatted tags.

How to change the SSRS input parameters position in report

My SSRS report contains 7 input parameters and while running my report the size of the parameter(i.e. length) is increasing.
One of my input parameter(drop down list) may contain 100 characters so the size is not constant but i want to place all parameters in 2 lines or 3 lines(in a row).
Now it is coming 2 parameters per a row
Please advice
As gbn indicates, it's not easy to change the built in report server method of presenting the parameters. SSRS likes to always use two parameters per line, presented in the order that they exist in the report (which must match the dependency order.)
So the alternatives that gbn mentions: Both involve building a "Wrapper" application: some custom code or a web page that you can code however you like to get the parameters. Then you call Reporting Services, either in code or by passing a formatted URL with your parameters. The report can be displayed in a frame, new window, or passed as a stream to where ever you'd like.
The URL access is pretty straightforward and reliable: I often use it either by hand (to create "favorites") or in code.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms153586.aspx
For what you are looking for, these might be more work than you expected, but they will be extremely flexible for your interface.
Jamie
You can certainly do that, just right click on the RDL file in the solution explorer and select view code. then move the XML tags named <ReportParameter Name="Nameofparameter"> under <ReportParameters> according to where ever you want to position. And then save it. thats it!!!
The report parameters are kind of floating in values of 2, so if u have 4 report parameters then it will be shown as 1,2 next line 3,4. Best of luck!!
Use ASP.NET for the paramaters and a ReportViewer control or URL access to render. Seriously.
I don't know of any option to present parameters any way other then the default
I believe you could try using jQuery. The report parameters are rendered in a table under a div tag with class sqlrv-ParameterContainer. Write a jQuery or JavaScript function that will extract the full innerHTML from this div ie. the table content and then extract the table row information like the <label> or <input> tags.
Create your desired table structure with <table><tr><td>{extracted sections}</td><td></td></tr></table> or leave it to your requirement...
Then just append this new HTML structure in place of the original default structure.
In jQuery it will be like
$(".sqlrv-ParameterContainer").html();
which will give you the entire table structure that comes inside the parameter. Use XML parsing and get the input controls and all. Extract these controls as-is, don't change anything.
$(".sqlrv-ParameterContainer table").remove(); // it will remove the SSRS rendered default table from DOM
$(".sqlrv-ParameterContainer table").appendChild('<table><tr>......</tr></table>'); // Append your custom html structure here....
This was something that came to my mind quickly... I would suggest you test it... :)
This doesn't help the OP with SSRS-2008 but in case it helps others - Microsoft have improved this in SSRS 2016 - parameters can now be easily managed via the GUI in Report Builder / Visual studio:
https://www.intertech.com/ssrs-parameters-2016-update/

I'm trying to select the adjacent sibling of "this" in jquery

$(this+"p").slideDown("slow");
$(this)+$("p").slideDown("slow");
$("this+p").slideDown("slow");
does not work.
Yeah, your syntax is bad. You should use the jQuery Sibling function:
$(this).siblings().find("p").slideDown("slow");
The jQuery API site is awesome for looking stuff like this up, I rely on it nearly daily. I'd keep an eye on it.
Next.
$(this).next("p").slideDown("slow")
Make sure that the "p" element is directly adjacent, though. Otherwise you'll want to use nextAll.
jQuery have not seemed to apply this? Possibly the syntax we are trying to use is incorrect.
next() can only select elements with an ID or Class - Not just a naked dom element as expected.
Instead use. > means select first level decends only.
$('body > div').hide();
But this gives the exact same result
$('body').children('div').hide();
But,
Next
$('body + div').hide();
and
Previous
$('body ~ div').hide();
Do not seem to work as expected? But jQuery use it as example for CSS selection...
Possibly there is a complex syntax to achieve this but I could not figure it out...