Re: [xml] Getting line number of schema validation errors

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:58:30AM +0200, Israel Ganor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I validate XML files vs. a schema asfollows:
>
>     xmlSchemaSetValidErrors(validSchema,
>               (xmlSchemaValidityErrorFunc)   ErrorCallback,
>               (xmlSchemaValidityWarningFunc) WarningCallback,
>               NULL);
>
>     xmlSchemaValidateDoc(validSchema, pDoc);
>
> However, in ErrorCallback and WarningCallback I only get general info about
> the failure, but without the line number. 
> It it's very helpful to tell the user that there is an error in <USER>
> element, when his XML file contains 100 such elements.
>
> Is there a way to tell the exact error line number?

  Obviously not with that API. Use the xmlSetStructuredErrorFunc()
from xmlerror.h to register a global structure error handler, then
you should get the node where the error was generated.

Daniel

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