Add location information to NSObject nodes about dd-plist HOT 4 CLOSED

This is not easily done.

The used java.xml parser does not provide line number information. One would need to implement a custom SAX handler that tracks location information. Or maybe use a third party library.

The ASCII property list parser is only parser where location information is available. But only the offset within the file, not the line or column number.

For binary property lists the offset within the file is available, but that information is hardly useful.

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Still it makes sense to have good information what to look at in case of error.
In binary files row and column would not make sense, I agree. But having a location path and a byte offset would be the best that can be offered and therefore should.
For ASCII and XML there is definitely a way to markup location path and row/column information.

The parser generator ANTLR is able to produce really good parsing errors, however I am unsure about the grammar for plist files. Hence I came to this project, which has a stunning parser but bad error information.

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@HiranChaudhuri Please take a look at this pull request #95 and check if that addresses your concerns.

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All requested features should be taken care of by the merged PR #95 .

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