Dealing with Malformed HTML

[Rodrigo Carvalho]

Hi Guys, greetings from Mexico!

I have to automate a Web-Based application which has a "dirty" HTML code. The issue is that the HTML is malformed (e.g. tables, column and rows not closed, unclosed links etc..) and QTP is not recognizing elements correctly on the page.

I have tried descriptive programming but that's not enough since i'm trying to pull data from tables that sometimes are not recognized. I have also tried pulling data from all "available" tables within the page (even this way... some tables are not pulled, seeem to be invisible)...

Any ideas guys? Really need some help!


Example of my code:
(even using this function, some data is not retrieved)

Code:

tblData = getAllTablesInnerText() Function getAllTablesInnerText() Dim i, num, rc, oDesc, roProperty Dim cadObjs, arrObjs Dim regexBrowser, regexPage Dim innerText Dim textTables roProperty = "innerText" regexBrowser ="title:=.*Enlace.*" regexPage = "title:=.*Enlace.*" Set oDesc=Description.Create oDesc("micclass").Value= "WebTable" Set rc = Browser(regexBrowser).Page(regexPage).ChildObjects(oDesc) num = rc.Count() ' For i=0 To num -1 print "Parseando tabla " & i & "..." innerText = rc(i).GetROProperty(roProperty) textTables = textTables & "<TABLA " & i & ">:" & innerText Next getAllTablesInnerText = textTables

End Function
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