From: ser@... (Sean Russell)
Date: 2004-07-22T22:12:04+09:00
Subject: Re: XML line numbers

Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<uUvLc.77191$ek5.23924@pd7tw2no>...
> I'm using the REXML stream parser to read in an xml file and check the
> attributes as I go. If a check fails, I want to print out the line
> number in the XML file that contains the offending element - is that
> possible?

Martin,

Check out Source#current_line.  Line number support in REXML is
limited at the moment, since a "line" for REXML isn't something ending
in a "\n", but is something ending in ">".  I've been considering ways
of counting "\n" lines without imposing a significant performance
penalty, but have had little luck.

--- SER