Re: [xml] validating SAX parser and error line numbers

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman nomic net>]

Thus spake Joel Uckelman:
>  
> > 2) If after a call to xmlParseDocument(), I find that !ctx->wellFormed,
> > is there a way to get an accurate indication of where things went wrong?
> > As with my example above, if I have "<blerg" on line 12 and call
> > xmlParseDocument(), after that the ctx->input->line is one more than the
> > last line of input---i.e., it appears that the parser read to the end in
> > a desparate attempt to find a closing '>'.
>
> I'm still hunting for a good solution for #2. The best idea I've had
> so far is for each SAX callback to update a variable containing the
> line number at the time it's run. This way, that variable (call it
> "goodline") will contain the number of the last line on which anything
> was successfully processed. I would think that libxml must already have
> this information, if only I knew where to look for it.

Does libxml2 not support this kind of thing? Anyone?

-- 
J.