As BaseX does not work on the XML textual representation, it might not be possible.
De : BaseX-Talk [mailto:basex-talk-boun...@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] De la part de ????? ?????? Envoyé : jeudi 5 juillet 2018 17:10 À : basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Objet : [basex-talk] Add line-number function Hello, could the $err:line-number [1] variable help you ? [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_3.0#Try.2FCatch Best regards, Fabrice ETANCHAUD cerfrancepch No, $err:line-number show line number of xquery file. I want this: Example.xml -> 1: <root> 2: <child> 3: <grandchild>text1</grandchild> 4: <grandchild>text2</grandchild> 5: <grandchild>text3</grandchild> 6: <grandchild>text4</grandchild> 7: </child> 8: </root> Xquery -> let $f := doc("example.xml") let $e := $f/root/child[1]/grandchild[3] let $line := line-number($e) And I want get $line = 5 !