In Selenium IDE, can I store an element to use in subsequent asserts?

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Published on 2010-05-19T11:19:29Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 12:00 UTC
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I've just started using Selenium-IDE (not looked at selenium-RC yet: if somebody tells me that that is the answer to my question I'll look at it)

One of the operations I'm testing generates some output in a table in the next HTML page, but the order of the rows is not predictable.

I can obviously use 'assertTextPresent', but I want to do a bit more, and check that various bits of text are in the same row.

What I would like to be able to do is to identify a tr by some content, and then use that tr in subsequent asserts; something like

storeExpression //table[@id='TABLE_6']/td[.='case_1']/.. row
assertText      ${row}     'Some text'
assertText      ${row}     'Some other text'

to check that 'Some text' and 'Some other text' occur in the same table row as 'case_1'.

I haven't got this to work so far, and I'm not sure whether it is possible, or what syntax to use if it is.

Has anybody managed to do this?

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