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test_xpath($mech, 'substring(//p,1,4)', all => 1); # expected String: Hell

That is not valid xpath syntax, what documentation are you reading?

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Re^2: Some issues with WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->xpath() method (xpath 1.0)
by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 02, 2013 at 10:22 UTC
    Works for me (using XML::XSH2): 
    $ xsh
$scratch/> insert element p into /scratch
$scratch/> insert text 'Hello world' into /scratch/p
$scratch/> echo substring(//p,1,4)
Hell

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      Works for me (using XML::XSH2):

      And you're sure that's not an xsh2 function/feature?

      Produces no output for me 

      #!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict; use warnings; use XML::LibXML;

my $html = <<'__HTML__';
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello Firefox!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello <b>World</b>!</h1>
<p id='paragraph'>Hello <b>WWW::Mechanize::Firefox</b> Goob bye</p>
</body>
</html>
__HTML__

my $dom = XML::LibXML->new(
    qw/ recover 2 /
)->load_html(
#~     string => \$html, ## BUG! scalar... not like load_xml
    string => $html,
);

local $\ = $/;

print for $dom->findnodes(q{ substring(//p,1,4) }); ## nada
print for $dom->findnodes(q{ //p }); ## paragraph

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        You are using findnodes, but there is no node corresponding to the substring. Use find instead: 
        print for $dom->find(q{ substring(//p,1,4) });

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Re^2: Some issues with WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->xpath() method (xpath 1.0)
by dfaure (Chaplain) on Apr 02, 2013 at 10:20 UTC
    That is not valid xpath syntax, what documentation are you reading?

    All comes from the specs (http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#section-Expressions) which I need to respect.

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