DOMLocator (Java SE 26 & JDK 26)
Description: declaration: module: java.xml, package: javax.xml.transform.dom, interface: DOMLocator
Keywords: javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMLocator interface

# Interface DOMLocator

All Superinterfaces:
  `SourceLocator`

public interface DOMLocator extends SourceLocator
Indicates the position of a node in a source DOM, intended primarily for error reporting. To use a DOMLocator, the receiver of an error must downcast the `SourceLocator` object returned by an exception. A `Transformer` may use this object for purposes other than error reporting, for instance, to indicate the source node that originated a result node.

Since:
  1.4

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `Node`
  `getOriginatingNode()`
  Return the node where the event occurred.

  ### Methods declared in interface SourceLocator

  `getColumnNumber, getLineNumber, getPublicId, getSystemId`
  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `int`
  `getColumnNumber()`
  Return the character position where the current document event ends.
  `int`
  `getLineNumber()`
  Return the line number where the current document event ends.
  `String`
  `getPublicId()`
  Return the public identifier for the current document event.
  `String`
  `getSystemId()`
  Return the system identifier for the current document event.

- ## Method Details

  - ### getOriginatingNode

    Node getOriginatingNode()
    Return the node where the event occurred.
    Returns:
      The node that is the location for the event.