Re: [xml] unsinged short for line numbers

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:05:27AM +0100, Stefan Froehlich wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:57:02AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > | long int *errorLines;
> > > | long int errorCount;
> > > | xmlNodePtr node;
> > > | [...]
> > > | errorLines[errorCount] = xmlGetLineNo(node);
>
> > > xmlGetLineNo is declared long, which is fine, but it passes back
> > > (struct _xmlNode*)->line, which is unsigned short and the cause of
> > > my trouble.
>
> > For very large document you need access to the parser context to
> > get the 32bit line number. If the error are issued at parsing time you
> > do get the parser context as part of the Structured error callback data.
>
> Problem is, I do _not_ get the error at parsing time. The documents are
> (mostly) well formed and survive an
>
> | xmlLineNumbersDefault(1);
> | doc = xmlParseFile(filename);
> | cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);
>
> perfectly. But when I traverse through the tree afterwards, beginning at
> "cur" and analyze its data, I normally find some (purely semantic)
> errors which I want to present the user with their line numbers
> nevertheless.
>
> Completely out of luck?

  Keep your own counter as you traverse the tree based in the 16bits values.

Daniel

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