On Jan 21, 2008, at 15:44, Anthony B. Coates (XML-Dev) wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:36:37 -0000, Henri Sivonen <>
> wrote:
>
>> Validator.nu uses a patched version of oNVDL with Xalan as its
>> Schematron 1.5 back end. I switched from Saxon 6 to Xalan in order
>> to get column numbers in addition to line numbers on errors.
>> However, I'm not happy with the performance of Xalan, which is why
>> I'm considering going back to Saxon. To do that without feature
>> loss, I need to patch Saxon to support column numbers.
>
> As many XML editors can use an XPath just as easily as line/column
> numbers to take you to a particular place in a document, I usually
> find it sufficient to return an XPath. It's straightforwards to
> generate, and avoids that need to have line/column numbers.
That's not what I need for Validator.nu. Every other library that I
use supports reporting errors with SAX locator data and, therefore,
I've built a front-end based on lines and columns. I control the
locator and I want to be able to retrieve both the line and column
that I carefully put in.
--
Henri Sivonen
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
