Why isn't my failed xpath expression causing an exception to be thrown in Selenium 2?

Why isn't my failed xpath expression causing an exception to be thrown in
Selenium 2?

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possible duplicate of Why isn't my failed xpath expression causing an
exception to be thrown in Selenium 2? – JimEvans Dec 4 '12 at 21:04.
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[webdriver] IE8 & XPath selector - Grokbase
... "Xpath expression cannot be evaluated or does notresult ... screen
looked like when the exception was thrown. Was ... you have to figure out
why Selenium is ...
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selenium.selenium — Selenium 2.0 documentation
... Locate an element using an XPath expression. ... and an exception will
be thrown, ... Note that specifying a domain that isn't a subset of the
current domain ...
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Selenium Reference
This suffix tells Selenium that the action will cause the browser to make
a ... Locate an element using an XPath expression. ... and an exception
will be thrown, ...
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Selenium: the odyssey continues! - Geekswithblogs.net
Bioshock 2: Great game, but why? ... All objects on page are accessed via
xPath expressions, although this isn't too ... Selenium fell short with
how it failed ...
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selenium.selenium
'xpath' is the xpath expression to evaluate. do NOT wrap ... Note that
specifying a domain that isn't a subset of the current ... and an
exception will be thrown, ...
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Selenium: Selenium IDE- Concepts
This suffix tells Selenium that the action will cause the browser to make
a ... Locate an element using an XPath expression. ... and an exception
will be thrown, ...
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Selenium
xpath - the xpath expression to evaluate. do NOT ... Note that specifying
a domain that isn't a subset of the ... and an exception will be thrown,
...
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gyrmination » Blog Archive » Selenium UI-Element Locator
This isn't really possible with simple XPath or DOM ... no_plan"; use
Test::Exception; my $sel = Test::WWW::Selenium ... of a continued XPath
expression, ...
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