DOMLocator does not return a DOMElement

[Larry Rosenzweig]

Hello, I am having a problem with Xerces C++ 2.3.0 where I am getting back a DOMText node from DOMLocator::getErrorNode(), instead of a DOMElement that I was expecting. I need to store all of the DOMElement nodes that generate errors when parsing (using a DOMBuilder), so I can refer to them later in my application. I am setting up my own error handler, which catches all of the errors as I expected, but then when I call getErrorNode() from the DOMLocator object that I get from the DOMError object passed into handleError(), it always returns a DOMTEXT node instead of a DOMElement node. To test this I created a small xml document that contained an invalid element. The error handler caught the error (error message: Unknown element 'MyInvalidElement'). So when I got the DOMLocator and then asked for the error node, I expected to get the DOMElement that represents MyInvalidElement. But I get a DOMText node. Is this correct behavior when catching this type of error? If so, is there a way to get from the DOMText node to the DOMElement? Below is a sample piece of code showing how I get the DOMNode: bool cDOMBuilderErrorHandler::handleError(const DOMError &rDomError)     {     mSawErrors = true;     if (rDomError.getSeverity() == DOMError::DOM_SEVERITY_WARNING)         {         cerr << "\nWarning at file ";         }     else if (rDomError.getSeverity() == DOMError::DOM_SEVERITY_ERROR)         {         do             {             DOMLocator *pDOMLocator = rDomError.getLocation() ;             if (pDOMLocator == NULL)                 break ;             DOMNode *pDOMNode = pDOMLocator->getErrorNode() ;             if (pDOMNode == NULL)                 break ;             // Expected pDOMNode to be a DOMElement, but its a DOMText node.             } while (0) ;         }     else         {         cerr << "\nFatal Error at file ";         }     return true;     } Thanks in advance for your help Larry Rosenzweig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]