I've been trying to use XMLElement to parse a big XML file and occasionally it's throwing me errors. I've tracked down where some of the problems are occuring by hand, but I was hoping that I could pull out more descriptive error information with a catch(Exception e).

Is there a syntax for asking for the line number, and column where the XML is breaking?

This is an example of the sort of stuff that's breaking the parser (for the sake of context) Code:

<pagetext content="Neil said, &quot;How could this happen?&quot" /> 

If you know your HTML, the invalid syntax is that after that second &quot, someone forgot to put the semicolon at the end. In the grand scheme of things, I can't see why the parser wouldn't just load the string in between the double-quotes whether it was valid special-character-markup or not, but .. that's what happens. :/