On which moment is the xml tree generated for native iOS app

#1

Hi

I’m using appium-python-client and ‘Appium XCUITest driver’

To have a better understanding how this is working, I would like to know on which moment the xml-file (page_source) is generated.
Is this always before a request is send from the client script?
Or is this when the content of the screen change?

Is there a way to regenerate this xml-file? (in case the element is not found, but displayed on the screen)

#2

Have you tried to use explicit waits to avoid possible race conditions?

The page source is requested from xctest each time the /source webdriver API is called.