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Error Location similar to Serde JSON or TOML Spanned?
Hi!
First of all, thank you for your excellent work on the quick-xml
project!
I'm currently working on a project where accurate error reporting would be nice. Particularly, I would like to be able to report the line and column number of any deserialization errors that occur when parsing an XML document. From what I understand, quick-xml
does not support this feature directly.
However, having a similar mechanism to what serde_json
and serde_toml
offer, in terms of Spanned
, would be great for more precise error reporting, even at the cost of some performance overheads.
Please consider this feature for future versions of quick-xml
. If there is anything I can do to help (testing, design, etc.), I would be interested in contributing.
Thanks!
I have a proposal of spans in events in my branch (some tests a failed now), but it is not yet integrated to the error type (I also have a feeling that we should rework our errors). Feel free to take over the baton if you will.
I've also prototyping a serde integration on top of this that allows me to deserialize a special type with span information given by deserializer, but that requires changes in serde.
Also, some related ideas discussed in #109.