Extract page content while simple testing with xpath and DOM

It is sometimes useful to grab content from the page that is currently tested. The idea is to search for the tag with xpath then convert it to DOM to get data... For instance, let's get the title and the href value of the second tab. 

  1. $tab = $this->xpath("//ul[contains(@class, 'tabs--primary')]/li[2]/a");
  2. $link_title = dom_import_simplexml($tab[0])->nodeValue; // Edit
  3. $href =  dom_import_simplexml($tab[0])->getAttribute('href'); // node/xx/edit
  4.  
  5. //note that $tab[0])->getAttribute("src"); seems to work as well
  6. // or easier to get the href $this->xpath("//ul[contains(@class, 'tabs--primary')]/li[2]/a/@href");

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