Re: [xml] unsinged short for line numbers

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:00:25PM +0100, Stefan Froehlich wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:12:44AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> [line numbers only up to 16 Bit]
> > > Completely out of luck?
> 
> > Keep your own counter as you traverse the tree based in the 16bits
> > values.
> 
> How can I? I don't access the text file, only the parsed structure,
> which has no indication about line breaks between the tags any more.
> 
> What I _could_ do is to sum up the 16 bit counter every now and then
> and thus detect and correct any overflows. However, the counter does not
> wrap around but gets stuck at 65535, so this is not possible as well.

  Then sorry, best to have those check in a DTD which will be processed at
parsing time.

Daniel

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