public static Location getLocationObject(Element element) 
{
         
        return LocationAttributes.getLocation(element);
}

 public static Document parse(InputSource inputSource) 
{
        return parse(inputSource, null);
}

Creates a W3C Document that remembers the location of each element in the source file. The location of element nodes can then be retrieved using the #getLocationObject(Element) method.

 public static Document parse(InputSource inputSource,
    Map dtdMappings) 
{
                
        SAXParserFactory factory = null;
        String parserProp = System.getProperty("xwork.saxParserFactory");
        if (parserProp != null) {
            try {
                Class clazz = ObjectFactory.getObjectFactory().getClassInstance(parserProp);
                factory = (SAXParserFactory) clazz.newInstance();
            }
            catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                LOG.error("Unable to load saxParserFactory set by system property 'xwork.saxParserFactory': " + parserProp, e);
            }
            catch (Exception e) {
                LOG.error("Unable to load saxParserFactory set by system property 'xwork.saxParserFactory': " + parserProp, e);
            }
        }
        if (factory == null) {
            factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
        }
        factory.setValidating((dtdMappings != null));
        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        SAXParser parser = null;
        try {
            parser = factory.newSAXParser();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            throw new XWorkException("Unable to create SAX parser", ex);
        }
        DOMBuilder builder = new DOMBuilder();
        // Enhance the sax stream with location information
        ContentHandler locationHandler = new LocationAttributes.Pipe(builder);
        try {
            parser.parse(inputSource, new StartHandler(locationHandler, dtdMappings));
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            throw new XWorkException(ex);
        }
        return builder.getDocument();
}

Creates a W3C Document that remembers the location of each element in the source file. The location of element nodes can then be retrieved using the #getLocationObject(Element) method.