XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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On 2016-05-31T22:52:38 +0100
Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com> wrote:
> 
> Of course, a naive implementation of node.getLineNumber() etc would add 
> significantly to the memory occupancy of node objects. Saxon's approach is 
> that (a) when building the tree, you have to ask for location information 
> to be retained (setLineNumbering(true)), and (b) the location information 
> is then held in a separate data structure which only exists when this 
> option is requested.
> 

That seems ideal to me. You don't get the costs of the extra data if
you don't ask for it, and it doesn't affect the existing API in any way.

M