Question

Can someone please provide me the xml query for retrieving the value of sessionId from the below response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ns2:createUserResponse xmlns:ns2="http://www.musicthp.com"     
                    isNewUser="false"
                    profileId="32109" 
                    sessionId="ryIlb+E5yj7FReA2w96uag=="
                    success="true">
<duration>316</duration>
</ns2:createUserResponse>

I tried using /ns2:createUserResponse/@sessionId and seems its not returning anything.
I want to use this query in the XPATH extractor of jmeter.
My requirement: I need to retrieve sessionId value using xpath extractor and use that value in the successive requests.

Thanks for your help in advance

Answer 1

Have you set JMeter to use namespaces?

JMeter has been reported to have problems with namespaces. If fiddling with settings won’t help, here is a workaround for the root element

/*/@sessionId

Workaround for any element in a namespace is to use *[local-name() = 'element'] instead of prefix:element