From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2009-04-23T02:49:11+09:00
Subject: Re: problem with Nokogiri::HTML::Element#line

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:50:04PM +0900, malikb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem with Nokogiri::HTML::Element#line, it always returns
> zero(0):
> 
> html = Nokogiri::HTML(<<eohtml)
> <html>
>   <head>
>     <title>test test</title>
>   </head>
>   <body>
>     Hello, world!
>   </body>
> </html>
> eohtml
> 
> html.xpath("/html/head/title")[0].line # 0
> html.xpath("/html/body")[0].line # 0
> 
> if I replace Nokogiri::HTML with Nokogiri::XML, all going to be
> perfect.
> 
> Nokogiri::HTML::Element extends Nokogiri::XML::Node, so, #line should
> return the line of the HTML node, isn't it?

It *should* return the line.  This is most likely a bug in libxml2.
Please file a ticket here:

  http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues

I will look in to the problem.

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/