Question

The subject basically says it all.

XmlBeans' XmlError.getLine() always returns -1.

Is there any way to get at least an approximate position for an error?

I have already tried the XmlObject, but since whitespace, quotes, et al. are stripped or changed, that’s not much help.

Answer 1

The documentation suggests you can do this by providing XmlOptions:

setLoadLineNumbers

If this option is set, line number
annotations are placed in the store
when parsing a document. This is
particularly useful when you want
XmlError objects to contain line
numbers. Note: This adds line numbers
info only for start tags. For line
number info on end tags use:
setLoadLineNumbers(java.lang.String)
Example:
xmlOptions.setLoadLineNumbers(XmlOptions.LOAD_LINE_NUMBERS_END_ELEMENT)