XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
> For XSLT and XQuery or other programs processing lots of files,  
> debugging would be made much easier if the URI of the current  document 
> would be included in ParsingException.toString(), if  available. That 
> way it would be immediately obvious which file causes  the parsing 
> problem. Otherwise one would need to add extra  instrumentation in all 
> sorts of places.
>
> Here is the simple patch for ParsingException:
>
>     public String toString() {
>         return super.toString() + " at line "
>           + lineNumber + ", column " + columnNumber + ", uri " + uri  + 
> ".";
>     }

That's reasonable. Looking at it now, I'd like to do a little more. 
Include the URI only if it's non-null and the line and column numbers 
only if they're not -1.


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