Storing locators for source documents burns additional storage; Xalan-J
doesn't do so unless you request it
(http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/features.html#source_location). Having said
that... I'm not sure that switch actually has any effect for stylesheet
documents; I'd have to dig into the code and/or try it.
For what it's worth: In my experience, most of the things people want to
use line/column information for -- with the possible exception of driving a
GUI -- are better addressed by generating an XPath to that point in the
document. "Line 5, column 25" is almost meaningless for humans;
"/customer/address" has some chance of being directly informative.
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
