On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 09:21:03PM +0200, Daniel Nagy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to show you a patch which adds the functionality to store
> and retrieve the columns of xml nodes.
>
> As I said in a previous email[1] me, and probably other people are
> in need of this to highlight a certain text area in an xml document.
[...]
> diff --git a/include/libxml/parser.h b/include/libxml/parser.h
> index 1f11fd9..987f16a 100644
> --- a/include/libxml/parser.h
> +++ b/include/libxml/parser.h
> @@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ struct _xmlParserCtxt {
>
> int loadsubset; /* should the external subset be
> loaded */
> int linenumbers; /* set line number in element content
> */
> + int columnnumbers; /* set column number in element
> content */
> void *catalogs; /* document's own catalog */
> int recovery; /* run in recovery mode */
> int progressive; /* is this a progressive parsing */
Adding this at the end of the structure would be possible,
> diff --git a/include/libxml/tree.h b/include/libxml/tree.h
> index 68f92f9..7e18a01 100644
> --- a/include/libxml/tree.h
> +++ b/include/libxml/tree.h
> @@ -502,7 +502,8 @@ struct _xmlNode {
> struct _xmlAttr *properties;/* properties list */
> xmlNs *nsDef; /* namespace definitions on this node */
> void *psvi; /* for type/PSVI informations */
> - unsigned short line; /* line number */
> + unsigned int line; /* line number */
> + unsigned int column; /* column index */
> unsigned short extra; /* extra data for XPath/XSLT */
> };
I said no previously to extending _xmlNode sorry! I do not want
to do this, ABI breakage, that data structure is being allocated
sometimes by user code, we can't change it. If I were to release
libxml3 and break ABI I might do this, but now I can't do this in
libxml2.
Daniel
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