On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollybox.de> wrote: > The DOM is disjunct from the original file, stream, string, etc. That's in the > nature of the DOM, and it's probably true for most, if not all, DOM > implementations, in other programming languages as well as Python. > If you want to stay close to the file, you're better of with SAX. (or a > similar approach, like eXpat)
The minidom parse function can also accept any SAX2 parser, so it should be possible to create a customized parser that stashes the line numbers somewhere and use that together with minidom. I've never attempted this myself, so I won't be able to help with details. Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
