On Aug 14, 12:07 pm, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollybox.de> wrote: > On Saturday 14 August 2010, it occurred to GZ to exclaim: > > > Hi All, > > > I am writing a little program that reads the minidom tree built from > > an xml file. I would like to print out the line number of the xml file > > on the parts of the tree that are not valid. But I do not seem to find > > a way to correspond minidom nodes to line numbers. > > The DOM does not contain things like line number information. You work with > the structure of the document, not the appearance of the file you happen to be > using as a source. You can't use line numbers with minidom. > > For stream-based parsers like SAX and eXpat (both in the standard library) > this makes more sense, and they both allow you to check the current line > number in one way or another.
So I am basically out of luck if I want to tie back to the original file for file error reporting etc. sounds like a deficiency to me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
