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The element location strategies for link text [1] and partial link text [2] references examples in pseudo code which doesn't make any sense. Besides this is uses the very misleading term “visible text” which is not further defined. It clearly borrows the algorithm used for getting an element's text [3], so perhaps this algorithm should be generalized? 1. https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/raw-file/tip/webdriver-spec.html#link-text 2. https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/raw-file/tip/webdriver-spec.html#partial-link-text 3. https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/raw-file/tip/webdriver-spec.html#widl-WebElement-getElementText-DOMString