org.w3c.dom
Interface DOMLocator


public interface DOMLocator

DOM Level 3 WD Experimental: The DOM Level 3 specification is at the stage of Working Draft, which represents work in progress and thus may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time.

DOMLocator is an interface that describes a location (e.g. where an error occured).

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification.


Method Summary
 int getColumnNumber()
          The column number where the error occured, or -1 if there is no column number available.
 Node getErrorNode()
          The DOM Node where the error occured, or null if there is no Node available.
 int getLineNumber()
          The line number where the error occured, or -1 if there is no line number available.
 int getOffset()
          The byte or character offset into the input source, if we're parsing a file or a byte stream then this will be the byte offset into that stream, but if a character media is parsed then the offset will be the character offset.
 java.lang.String getUri()
          The URI where the error occured, or null if there is no URI available.
 

Method Detail

getLineNumber

public int getLineNumber()
The line number where the error occured, or -1 if there is no line number available.


getColumnNumber

public int getColumnNumber()
The column number where the error occured, or -1 if there is no column number available.


getOffset

public int getOffset()
The byte or character offset into the input source, if we're parsing a file or a byte stream then this will be the byte offset into that stream, but if a character media is parsed then the offset will be the character offset. The value is -1 if there is no offset available.


getErrorNode

public Node getErrorNode()
The DOM Node where the error occured, or null if there is no Node available.


getUri

public java.lang.String getUri()
The URI where the error occured, or null if there is no URI available.



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