Re: [xml] column information in the error structure

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:35:17PM -0800, Aleksey Sanin wrote:
> >  Now about 2) most of the time int2 is not used, actually checking the 
> > __xmlRaiseError() calls it seems it's never used, or rather 0 is always
> > passed. So if you want to extend the error messages using int2 sounds fine
> > for most uses. 
> >  Of course if it is error you are generating in a higher level you're 
> > really free to do what you want with those values.
> The idea was to report the column number for all the errors from parser
> where it is possible. I don't think this qualifies as "errors generated
> on higher level" :) So would you (or anyone else) mind if I rename
> "int2" into "column" and set it to the current parser column where
> possible?

  I would not rename it in the structure, I would just change the comment,
but I would rename it in the functions arguments like __xmlRaiseError
since it doesn't generate an API change.

> BTW, another question about "col" in struct _xmlParserInput: it seems
> that currently it contains the character number from the beggining
> of the file and not the column number from the beggining of the current
> line (as I would expect from the comment :) ). Is this a bug or
> a feature?

  A bug :-), each time the line is increased, it should be reset to 1 of
course ... which apparently I forgot to do sometimes. Actually it is reset
to 1 in a number of places, but not in the fast paths. The only doubt I
had was about xmlByteConsumed() but it doesn't seems to use col.

Daniel

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