XmlTextReader.LinePosition Property gets the current line position.
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
public class Sample
public shared sub Main()
Dim xmlFrag as string = "<book><misc><style>paperback</style><pages>240</pages></misc></book>"
Dim nt as NameTable = new NameTable()
Dim nsmgr as XmlNamespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(nt)
Dim context as XmlParserContext = new XmlParserContext(nothing, nsmgr, nothing, XmlSpace.None)
Dim reader as XmlTextReader = new XmlTextReader(xmlFrag, XmlNodeType.Element, context)
while (reader.Read())
select case reader.NodeType
case XmlNodeType.Element:
Console.Write("{0} {1},{2} ", reader.Depth, reader.LineNumber, reader.LinePosition)
Console.WriteLine("<{0}>", reader.Name)
case XmlNodeType.Text:
Console.Write("{0} {1},{2} ", reader.Depth, reader.LineNumber, reader.LinePosition)
Console.WriteLine(" {0}", reader.Value)
case XmlNodeType.EndElement:
Console.Write("{0} {1},{2} ", reader.Depth, reader.LineNumber, reader.LinePosition)
Console.WriteLine("</{0}>", reader.Name)
end select
End while
reader.Close()
End sub
End class