XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Michael Kay wrote:

> With respect, those are not very good reasons. SAX parsers already provide
> the information, and it can be delivered over the API by a single method
> getLocation() with a corresponding return class. The implementation of
> course is a bit complicated because you have to store the information "out
> of band" so there is zero overhead for people who don't need it.


Do any SAX parsers reliably report location information? I haven't 
noticed one. Most seem to make a reasonable effort to report that 
information if they can get it without too much trouble.  Then again 
I've only really cared in the tricky case where there's an error. It 
might be easier to do when the document is well-formed.

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