Re: [xml] Line Numbers limited to 65535

[Mike Hommey <mh glandium org>]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 03:09:57PM +0200, Ralf Junker <ralfjunker gmx de> wrote:
> One more question about line numbers in libxml: It seems that in tree.h, struct _xmlNode limits line 
> numbers to 65535 only in this line:
>
>   unsigned short line; /* line number */
>
> Again, is this correct and intended?
>
> If not, could it be extended to int, or would this break backward compatability?

See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2007-October/msg00002.html
and followups.

Mike