# Interface DOMLocator

All Superinterfaces:
  `SourceLocator`

public interface DOMLocator extends SourceLocator
Indicates the position of a node in a source DOM, intended primarily for error reporting. To use a DOMLocator, the receiver of an error must downcast the `SourceLocator` object returned by an exception. A `Transformer` may use this object for purposes other than error reporting, for instance, to indicate the source node that originated a result node.

Since:
  1.4

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `Node`
  `getOriginatingNode()`
  Return the node where the event occurred.

  ### Methods declared in interface javax.xml.transform.SourceLocator

  `getColumnNumber, getLineNumber, getPublicId, getSystemId`

- ## Method Details

  - ### getOriginatingNode

    Node getOriginatingNode()
    Return the node where the event occurred.
    Returns:
      The node that is the location for the event.