Re: Producing an XML report from the validator

• From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
• Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:01:11 +0900
• To: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>, Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
• Cc: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>, Esmond Walshe <esmond.walshe@eeng.dcu.ie>, www-validator@w3.org
• Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20010614115834.06266b30@sh.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>

At 13:58 01/06/13 -0400, Christian Smith wrote:
>start offset    (the offset of the beginning of the error)
>end offset              (the offset of the end of the error)
>
>Note: These might be the same but would preferably specify a range. In
>any event the value should be the character offset from the beginning of
>the file.

Please be very careful with this. We currently get a character
position, but please don't confuse this with what you probably
are looking for (as you are speaking about non-opened files,
I guess it could be byte positions). Once the date is converted
from an arbitrary encoding to utf-8, byte positions are pretty
much lost. It's not completely impossible to get them back, but
it's a lot of dirty work.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Wednesday, 13 June 2001 23:02:44 UTC