Re: [xml] newTextReader's GetParserLineNumber is too keen??

["Bruce A. Johnson" <bjohnson blueridgenetworks com>]

Nigel Tao wrote:
> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?  And if this is a bug,
> can I get some hints as to what parts of the code to look to patch?
>

I would say it's a case of the function description needing a little 
more elaboration, or a caveat:

From http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlreader.html :
> Function: xmlTextReaderGetParserLineNumber
>
> int     xmlTextReaderGetParserLineNumber        (xmlTextReaderPtr reader)
>
> Provide the line number of the current parsing point.
> reader: the user data (XML reader context)
> Returns:        an int or 0 if not available

Maybe add: "This information is only useful if you are debugging the 
parser."

When I attempted to use the function, I was trying to report a parsing 
error in such a way that a human being examining an XML file in a text 
editor like vi could go to the reported line number and figure out what 
it was that had offended the parser or the back end (like, a value out 
of range).  I wound up reporting the enclosing tag instead.  :-(

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