RE: debugging source line numbers

Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
> 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

This counts text nodes, not line feeds.  If a text node has more than one
line feed it will still only count as one text node in the final result.

I think it is on the right track, but it does not quite work as currently
written.

-- Roger Glover
   glover_roger@xxxxxxxxx



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