[XML-SIG] Getting the line number from an XML file

[Joakim Hove]

Hello,

I'm in the process of teaching myself some XML by writing a simple
program for handling bibliographic references. I have started with the
"qtfmt.py" example in the demo/quotes/ directory of the PyXML
distribution, and hence "drv_pyexpat.py" driver [Currently I have no
clue in how to chose in the myriad of different drivers - but that
will probably come ...].

Now, I want to get the line-number where a certain entity is defined,
so during parsing the program should write to stdout:

Found <xx> on line nnn ...
Fount <yy> on line nnn ...

The driver I'm using has the locator routines getLineNumber and
getColumnNumber, but according to comments in the code they are only
usable after an error. I would like to call these methods irrespective
of whether an error has occured. Is this possible??

Joakim

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