Re: [xml] xmllint: no line numbers in --dtdvalid validation output (bugzilla #131545)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:24:34PM +0900, Michael Smith wrote:
> Is it reasonable to expect that xmllint might be enhanced to have
> --dtdvalid output match --valid output?

 only to some extend, the validation mechanism are quite different.

> Is there some limitation that
> prevents this?

  yes and no. binary compatibility makes fixing DTD validation APIs
extermely hard, on the other hand the line number should be present
from the tree and this should be made available.

> Or is it intentional that output for --dtdvalid should
> lack this info?

  No.

Daniel

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