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> > I think the main trouble you will have using the SAX approach is that the > locator > will not have the value you require to build an index. According to the SAX > spcification > "If possible, the SAX driver should provide the line position of the first > character > after the text associated with the document event" > > So, for example, for a startElement() event the locator is likely to point > at the first character > of element content - rather than the first character of the element start > tag. If you are planning > on using this index position to later parse the fragment you will obviously > need the > position at the start of the tag. Yup. That was the plan. So, is this a roll-your-own parser adventure I'm on then? I'm looking at expat right now, which does give one a byte offset into the file, but I'm not certain exactly which part of the element the offset points to. Any experience with it? > > (and if it is written in c++ that makes my life MUCH easier) > Oh good, somebody else using my favorite language! :-) Thanks for the help, by the way! Judi Thomson
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