http://eyalsch.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/xml-dom-2/

该解决方案遵循Michael Kay建议的方法。这是你如何使用它：

// XmlTest.java

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class XmlTest {
    public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {

        String xmlString = "<foo>\n"
                         + "    <bar>\n"
                         + "        <moo>Hello World!</moo>\n"
                         + "    </bar>\n"
                         + "</foo>";

        InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes());
        Document doc = PositionalXMLReader.readXML(is);
        is.close();

        Node node = doc.getElementsByTagName("moo").item(0);

        System.out.println("Line number: " + node.getUserData("lineNumber"));
    }
}

如果你运行这个程序，它会输出：“行号：3”

PositionalXMLReader是上面链接的一个稍微修改版本。

// PositionalXMLReader.java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Stack;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.Locator;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

public class PositionalXMLReader {
    final static String LINE_NUMBER_KEY_NAME = "lineNumber";

    public static Document readXML(final InputStream is) throws IOException,SAXException {
        final Document doc;
        SAXParser parser;
        try {
            final SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
            parser = factory.newSAXParser();
            final DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            final DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
            doc = docBuilder.newDocument();
        } catch (final ParserConfigurationException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Can't create SAX parser / DOM builder.",e);
        }

        final Stack<Element> elementStack = new Stack<Element>();
        final StringBuilder textBuffer = new StringBuilder();
        final DefaultHandler handler = new DefaultHandler() {
            private Locator locator;

            @Override
            public void setDocumentLocator(final Locator locator) {
                this.locator = locator; // Save the locator,so that it can be used later for line tracking when traversing nodes.
            }

            @Override
            public void startElement(final String uri,final String localName,final String qName,final Attributes attributes)
                    throws SAXException {
                addTextIfNeeded();
                final Element el = doc.createElement(qName);
                for (int i = 0; i < attributes.getLength(); i++) {
                    el.setAttribute(attributes.getQName(i),attributes.getValue(i));
                }
                el.setUserData(LINE_NUMBER_KEY_NAME,String.valueOf(this.locator.getLineNumber()),null);
                elementStack.push(el);
            }

            @Override
            public void endElement(final String uri,final String qName) {
                addTextIfNeeded();
                final Element closedEl = elementStack.pop();
                if (elementStack.isEmpty()) { // Is this the root element?
                    doc.appendChild(closedEl);
                } else {
                    final Element parentEl = elementStack.peek();
                    parentEl.appendChild(closedEl);
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void characters(final char ch[],final int start,final int length) throws SAXException {
                textBuffer.append(ch,start,length);
            }

            // Outputs text accumulated under the current node
            private void addTextIfNeeded() {
                if (textBuffer.length() > 0) {
                    final Element el = elementStack.peek();
                    final Node textNode = doc.createTextNode(textBuffer.toString());
                    el.appendChild(textNode);
                    textBuffer.delete(0,textBuffer.length());
                }
            }
        };
        parser.parse(is,handler);

        return doc;
    }
}