[XNI CHANGE PROPOSAL] XMLParseException changes and creation of XMLLocator2

Hey folks,

Just wanted to see what everyone thinks about a couple of changes in XNI
that
I am proposing:

1) As an extension of the org.apache.xerces.xni.XMLLocator interface,
XMLLocator2 interface
    was created to expose character offset information (i.e. the character
location in the stream
    being read). Since this interface extends an XNI interface, I would
like it to live in the
    org.apache.xerces.xni package as well.

2) In order to propagate the offset information available (due to the above
change), I also want
     to change the XMLParseException class (in org.apache.xerces.xni.parser
package) to contain
     offset information.

I would like to know if there are any comments about these changes as well
as any
problems/issues that you see.

Thanks.

Ankit Pasricha
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
8200 Warden Avenue, Ontario L6G 1C7
Phone: (905) 413 4941