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Introduction
The PAGEMAP feature activates eValid capabilities to read, analyze, and manipulate the contents of a current page. PAGEMAP enables testing of AJAX applications, creation of sophisticated E-commerce website tests, and identification of invariant page properties upon which to synchronize AJAX applications.

Technical Details
The PAGEMAP feature enables the following capabilities:

• DOM Viewing
  When activated, the PageMap display employs right-clicks on the active browser window to navigate into the DOM tree display and reveal the values of all properties (attributes) of each DOM element. This feature is bi-directional: navigation within the PageMap tree display highlights the corresponding visual section of the browser window.

• Searching of the DOM for Specified Matches
  PAGEMAP-activated commands allow the user to search the DOM for specific string matches for the names of attributes or their values. Included in the search capability are both regular string match and regular expression match modes.

• Index/Motion Based (Structural Testing) Commands
  A sourceIndex value identified with a search operation can be modified and used as the basis for controlling test actions on a page. Such activity allows testing of functionality on a purely structural basis i.e. based on the [relative] location of objects on the page. This capability is very useful on web pates that do not have unique constant attribute values assigned to their elements.

• DOM-Based Synchronization
  The playback process can wait for a specific attribute to attain a specific value. This capability is often essential to assure that tests of AJAX applications are fully synchronized. In addition, the adaptive playback capability can make this check insensitive to a broad range of page layout changes.

• Validation of DOM Values
  Given an expected content string, eValid DOM validation commands can confirm that the specified element has the required value. Adaptive playback can make this check insensitive to page layout changes.

• DOM-Based Synchronization With Adaptive Playback
  Some PAGEMAP activated commands combine DOM-based synchronization with the adaptive playback feature.

• Extraction & Insertion of DOM Values
  At an identified sourceIndex value the user can extract or insert values of any specified attribute at that place in the page. The extracted elementValue string taken from one point in a page (or in test playback) can be inserted into any attribute value later in test playback.

• Value Input/Output
  The current values of sourceIndex and elementValue can be written to local files and/or read from local files.

• Dynamic Replacement
  The current values of sourceIndex and elementValue are available as reserved variables $_SourceIndex and $_ElementValue, and can be used parametrically in any script running in the current execution context.