Re: debugging source line numbers

                    <value>
                      standard
                    </value>

In case preserving of whitespace-only nodes has not been turned off and
the xml source has "a single tag with all attributs/namespace
definitions" on a single line, then the following gives the exact line
number:

count(preceding::text()[contains(., '
')]) + 1

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