With libxml, how to get the character position of a given element or attribute in the source xml file?

Question

With libxml2, we can use xmlGetLineNo to get the line number in which a node appears in the source XML file.

But how to get character positions of a given element and a given attribute? I need both the start and end positions in the source xml file for both a node and an attribute.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use the SAX2 interface which has the xmlSAX2GetColumnNumber method.