- From: Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex <gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:48:26 +0100
- To: xproc-dev@w3.org
Wow! I have a feeling that your second? third? fourth? contribution for this year’s Markup UK is in the making.
On 25.01.2025 12:23, Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote:
> Norm Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
>> If you literally wanted to drive Selenium, …
>
> It proved to be an irresistible challenge. I managed to bang out a proof-of-concept in a couple of hours. I invented a horrible little language for describing the desired interaction, then I cooked up an iXML grammar for it, then I implemented finding elements, sending keys, clicking buttons, waiting, and grabbing content from the page.
>
> This step:
>
> <cx:selenium browser="firefox">
> <p:with-option name="arguments" select="('--headless')"/>
> <p:with-input>
> <p:inline content-type="text/plain">script version 0.1 .
> page "https://www.wikipedia.org/" .
> element search = find-selector("#searchInput") .
> element button = find-selector("button[type='submit']") .
> text search "xproc" .
> click button .
> wait reload search .
> element content = find-selector(".mw-body-content") .
> grab content .
> </p:inline>
> </p:with-input>
> </cx:selenium>
>
> uses Selenium with the Firefox web driver to load and interact with the web. It returns the main content of the Wikipedia article about XProc. :-)
>
> The step declaration is:
>
> <p:declare-step type="cx:selenium">
> <p:input port="source" content-types="text"/>
> <p:output port="result" content-types="html" sequence="true"/>
> <p:option name="browser" as="xs:string" required="true"
> values="('firefox', 'chrome', 'safari', 'edge', 'internetexplorer')"/>
> <p:option name="capabilities" as="map(xs:QName, item())?"/>
> <p:option name="arguments" as="xs:string*"/>
> </p:declare-step>
>
> The language for describing interaction is too awful to document or release, but I’ll see if I get anywhere with it.
>
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
> --
> Norm Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
> https://norm.tovey-walsh.com/
>
>> Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.--Alfred Lord Tennyson
>
Received on Saturday, 25 January 2025 11:48:34 UTC