public static String GetId(string role, string name)
{
string id = ERROR_IDENTIFICATION_FAILED;
try
{
// NOTE: role should be a number (according to ACC), but this is not always the case
// e.g. Firefox (3.6.8) returns html tags such as "div", "pre", "h4", ...
// note: an empty name is not very useful here because it would result in id only e.g. "42-" for all unnamed text fields
// note: double check required to handle names that use special characters only, e.g. buttons with names "<" and ">"
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(name))
{
name = BaseUtils.sanitizeString(name);
}
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(name))
{
id = BaseUtils.sanitizeString(role + "-" + name);
}
}
catch (Exception) { }
return(id);
}