[jdom-interest] How can I get the line number of an element?

[Rick Horowitz]

Laurent,

Do you happen to have a code sample that I can follow? 

Thanks very much for your help.

Rick

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 03:48, Laurent Bihanic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Rick Horowitz wrote:
> > Is there a way to determine the line number of an element and/or
> > attribute when reading an XML file using JDOM? If so, how?
> 
> The line number information is available through method getLineNumber() of the 
> Locator object provided by the SAXParser. SAXHandler provides the public 
> method getDocumentLocator() for getting access to this locator.
> But the SAXHandler instance is well hidden within SAXBuilder. You'll need to 
> subclass SAXBuilder to overwrite the createContentHandler() method to store 
> the reference to the SAXHandler instance and add a public method to make it or 
> the Locator or the actual line number information available.
> 
> Be careful though, the information provided by the locator is only valid while 
> the parse is ongoing. Thus the only way, in JDOM, to get meaningful line 
> numbers is to retrieve this information from a JDOMFactory, when elements are 
> being created.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Laurent
> 
>