How to get the line number an xml element is on via the Java w3c dom api

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Published on 2010-04-30T20:19:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 8:57 UTC
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Is there a way to lookup the line number that a given element is at in an xml file via the w3c dom api?

My use case for this is that we have 30,000+ maps in kml/xml format. I wrote a unit test that iterates over each file found on the hard drive (about 17GB worth) and tests that it is parseable by our application. When it fails I throw an exception that contains the element instance that was considered "invalid". In order for our mapping department (nobody here knows how to program) to easily track down the typo we would like to log the line number of the element that caused the exception.

Can anybody suggest a way to do this? Please note we are using the W3C dom api included in the Android 1.6 SDK.

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