Line numbers reported in Exceptions are Zero based, should be 1 based
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 5d88f71..338d1d5 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 	</properties>

 	<body>

 		<release version="1.5" date="in Mercurial" description="development: improve performance">

+		    <action dev="py4fun" type="fix" issue="24" due-to="shrode">

+                Line numbers reported in Exceptions are Zero based, should be 1 based (2009-10-12)

+            </action>

 			<action dev="py4fun" type="fix" issue="21" due-to="ashwin.jayaprakash">

                 Support arrays of reference types as JavaBean properties (2009-09-22)

             </action>

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/error/Mark.java b/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/error/Mark.java
index 5d921a2..3cfd43e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/error/Mark.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/error/Mark.java
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@
         StringBuffer where = new StringBuffer(" in \"");

         where.append(name);

         where.append("\", line ");

-        where.append(line);

+        where.append(line + 1);

         where.append(", column ");

-        where.append(column);

+        where.append(column + 1);

         if (snippet != null) {

             where.append(":\n");

             where.append(snippet);

@@ -108,10 +108,16 @@
         return name;

     }

 

+    /**

+     * starts with 0

+     */

     public int getLine() {

         return line;

     }

 

+    /**

+     * starts with 0

+     */

     public int getColumn() {

         return column;

     }

diff --git a/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/error/MarkTest.java b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/error/MarkTest.java
index 60157d3..6b73033 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/error/MarkTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/error/MarkTest.java
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     public void testToString() {

         Mark mark = new Mark("test1", 0, 0, 0, "*The first line.\nThe last line.", 0);

         String[] lines = mark.toString().split("\n");

-        assertEquals(" in \"test1\", line 0, column 0:", lines[0]);

+        assertEquals(" in \"test1\", line 1, column 1:", lines[0]);

         assertEquals("*The first line.", lines[1].trim());

         assertEquals("^", lines[2].trim());

     }

diff --git a/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue24/LineNumberTest.java b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue24/LineNumberTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58f2ff7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue24/LineNumberTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/**

+ * Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Andrey Somov

+ *

+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at

+ *

+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

+ *

+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

+ * limitations under the License.

+ */

+package org.yaml.snakeyaml.issues.issue24;

+

+import java.io.IOException;

+

+import junit.framework.TestCase;

+

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.Util;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml;

+

+/**

+ * to test http://code.google.com/p/snakeyaml/issues/detail?id=24

+ */

+public class LineNumberTest extends TestCase {

+    public void test1() throws IOException {

+        String resource = Util.getLocalResource("issues/issue24-1.yaml");

+        // System.out.println(resource);

+        Yaml yaml = new Yaml();

+        try {

+            yaml.load(resource);

+            fail();

+        } catch (Exception e) {

+            assertTrue(e.toString(), e.toString().contains("line 3"));

+            assertTrue(e.toString(), e.toString().contains("column 12"));

+        }

+    }

+}

diff --git a/src/test/resources/issues/issue24-1.yaml b/src/test/resources/issues/issue24-1.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9b4a6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/issues/issue24-1.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+pop :  {
+    banana: coconut
+    peppery: salty
+    }