Selenium get dynamic ID XPath -

i'm new on selenium, new here , english not best.

i'm using selenium .net ...

i have html page number of events different:

<div id="eventcontent" style="text-align: center;">        <div class="event" id="event-8971062">             <ul>                 <li ...></li>                 <li ...></li>                 <li ...></li>             </ul>        </div>                            <div class="event odd" id="event-9224880">             <ul>                 <li ...></li>                 <li ...></li>                 <li ...></li>             </ul>         </div>           </div> 

i need check datas in different divs count dynamic , (event)id dynamic too. i'm trying find out count of divs @ first does'nt work. try this:

defaultselenium selenium = new defaultselenium(...); decimal count = selenium.getxpathcount("//div[@id='eventcontent']"); 

but brings 1 result , not 2 example.

when try:

console.writeline(selenium.gettext("//div[@id='eventcontent'][1]")); 

it prints divs, when do:

console.writeline(selenium.gettext("//div[@id='eventcontent'][1]/div")); 

it prints first div , not understand why. kind , give me explaination of whats going on here , i'm wrong?

thanks in advance elur

decimal count = selenium.getxpathcount("//div[@id='eventcontent']"); 

this return count of divs have id of eventcontent - there 1 div this, why count of 1 (count variables typically ints rather decimals, incidentally).

if want count of contained divs, use

int count = selenium.getxpathcount("//div[@id='eventcontent']/div"); 

this count number of div children of div id of eventcontent. should return 2, desired.

as gettext examples, think gettext return text of first node xpath argument selects. with

selenium.gettext("//div[@id='eventcontent'][1]") 

you entire text of parent div, naturally contains child divs, with

selenium.gettext("//div[@id='eventcontent'][1]/div") 

you text of first child div. xpath selects child divs, gettext operates on single element only, believe. if want examine text of each child div in turn, you'll need first count of child divs, use for loop each 1 in turn:

for(int = 1; <= count; ++i) {     string childxpath = "//div[@id='eventcontent']/div[" + + "]";     string eventtext = selenium.gettext(childxpath);      // processing of eventtext } 

a for loop , manual xpath processing needed here (rather neater foreach), believe selenium doesn't have way of taking xpath , returning collection of elements.