Sean Russell <ser / germane-software.com> wrote:
> Martin DeMello <martindemello / yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<uUvLc.77191$ek5.23924@pd7tw2no>...
> > I'm using the REXML stream parser to read in an xml file and check the
> > attributes as I go. If a check fails, I want to print out the line
> > number in the XML file that contains the offending element - is that
> > possible?
> 
> Martin,
> 
> Check out Source#current_line.  Line number support in REXML is
> limited at the moment, since a "line" for REXML isn't something ending
> in a "\n", but is something ending in ">".  I've been considering ways
> of counting "\n" lines without imposing a significant performance
> penalty, but have had little luck.

Thanks - I'm going out of town for a few days, but I'll take a look at
it when I come back. This is a case where helpful error messages are
more useful than performance, so I don't mindf taking a bit of a speed
hit.

martin