Selenium cannot find SVG element in XPath

Question

I have the following HTML:

<div id="imageholder>

    <svg>

        <g> <image href='blah.gif'> </g>

    </svg>

</div>

And I cannot seem to locate the svg with selenium IDE on firefox at all. I have tried:

//svg

//svg:svg

//*[name()='svg']

//*[namespace-uri()='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg']

None of them can locate my svg element. Sometimes I get the error:

error = TypeError: e.scrollIntoView is not a function

I'm using this as a means to use the locator in JUnit 4 testing if that helps.

Answer 1

The question is concerning XPath, however, if you will use CSS Selectors, that might be a lot of decipherable, like thus (Java)

WebElement image = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("#imageholder > svg > g > image"));

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