Interface for associating a SAX event with a document location. More...

Public Member Functions
Constructors and Destructor
	Locator ()
	Default constructor. More...

virtual	~Locator ()
	Destructor. More...

The locator interface
virtual const XMLCh *	getPublicId () const =0
	Return the public identifier for the current document event. More...

virtual const XMLCh *	getSystemId () const =0
	Return the system identifier for the current document event. More...

virtual XMLFileLoc	getLineNumber () const =0
	Return the line number where the current document event ends. More...

virtual XMLFileLoc	getColumnNumber () const =0
	Return the column number where the current document event ends. More...

Detailed Description

Interface for associating a SAX event with a document location.

If a SAX parser provides location information to the SAX application, it does so by implementing this interface and then passing an instance to the application using the document handler's setDocumentLocator method. The application can use the object to obtain the location of any other document handler event in the XML source document.

Note that the results returned by the object will be valid only during the scope of each document handler method: the application will receive unpredictable results if it attempts to use the locator at any other time.

SAX parsers are not required to supply a locator, but they are very strong encouraged to do so. If the parser supplies a locator, it must do so before reporting any other document events. If no locator has been set by the time the application receives the startDocument event, the application should assume that a locator is not available.

See also: DocumentHandler::setDocumentLocator

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Locator::Locator ( )

Default constructor.

virtual Locator::~Locator ( )

virtual

Destructor.

Member Function Documentation

virtual XMLFileLoc Locator::getColumnNumber ( ) const

pure virtual

Return the column number where the current document event ends.

Note that this is the column number of the first character after the text associated with the document event. The first column in a line is position 1.