Having trouble using Capybara and Selenium to find an svg tag on a page
It turns out this is an issue with Firefox's built in xpath evaluator.
Using FireBug, I was able to verify that the call that Selenium uses:
document.evaluate("//svg", document, null, 9, null).singleNodeValuedoesn't return any elements, whereas
document.evaluate("//div", document, null, 9, null).singleNodeValuereturns the first div on the page.
There may be some namespacing issues that could get FireFox to return svg elements. For now I've just looked for elements with my svg xmlns attribute.