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If the specified `severity` is greater than the current value of `this‐>severity()`, then set this object's severity to `severity`, line number to the specified `lineNumber`, column number to the specified `columnNumber`, source name to the specified `source`, and error message to the specified `errorMsg`, otherwise do nothing.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balxml_errorinfo.h>`

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void
setError(
    xref:BloombergLP/balxml/ErrorInfo/Severity-0f.adoc[Severity] severity,
    int lineNumber,
    int columnNumber,
    std::string_view const& source,
    std::string_view const& errorMsg);
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