Question

I have the path to my XML file on my computer, but how can I use selenium (web automation tool) to inject the XML file ?

Usually how it is done (manually) is navigate to the URL and COPY AND PASTE the entire XML text into the provided text box..

Any ideas how to inject the file using automation ? There is no way to “drag” the XML file to the text box and I believe the way I’m thinking that it will work is very complicated.

Answer 1

I think this is actually what you want –

File xml = new File("xmlpath");

String url = xml.getAbsolutePath();
url = url.replace('\\', '/');
url = url.replace(" ", "%20");

String actual = "file:/" + url;

selenium.open(actual);

Then you should be able to get the xml using String theXML = selenium.getText("//rootxmlnode"); Then do what you will with it.