Why is choosing xpath as a locator not considered a good practice in selenium?

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we can locate element by id,class,xpath, etc., 1) 'id' is unique for all component in html, so searching by id is good option, will reduce the searching time where as xpath will take long-time to find the html element. This is why using xpath is not good practice, but if id is not available then no...
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we can locate element by id,class,xpath, etc., 1) 'id' is unique for all component in html, so searching by id is good option, will reduce the searching time where as xpath will take long-time to find the html element. This is why using xpath is not good practice, but if id is not available then no other way than pick by xpath. read less
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When you choose XPath if there is any change in the hierarchy of the web table in future, we might need to update with current locator. Other locators like IDs will not be changed as they are default property of the element.
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