Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition

This class extends SourceLocator to define a method for retrieving a DOM Node object, which is typically used to indicate the source of an error in the transformation process. See SourceLocator and transformerException .

public interface DOMLocator extends javax.xml.transform.SourceLocator { // Public Instance Methods org.w3c.dom.Node getOriginatingNode ( ); }