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"Alan Garny" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message 
news:479f0922$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> I was wondering whether there is a way to get the line number
> of a node in a TXMLDocument object?

No.

> My understanding is that a DOM implementation is used to parse
> a XML file and represent it as a hierarchy of nodes.

Yes.

> It would seem that the nodes don't hold any information about
> their location in the XML file.

Correct.

> I can understand it from a design point of view, but not from an
> end-user point of view. Indeed, while parsing the XML file, and
> therefore nodes, I do various checks and I want to be able to report
> any problem that there might be with the XML code. I already do all
> of that, except that to help my users even further, I would like to be
> able to refer to the line/column of the problem.

The only way to get that info is if either the XML parser's own error 
messages include it, you use a SAX parser that includes it while parsing, or 
you parse the XML manually.


Gambit