Column numbers apparently start at 0. So you may want to add 1.
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
xml_get_current_column_number — Get current column number for an XML parser
$parser
)Gets the current column number of the given XML parser.
parser
A reference to the XML parser to get column number from.
This function returns FALSE
if parser
does
not refer to a valid parser, or else it returns which column on
the current line (as given by
xml_get_current_line_number()) the parser is
currently at.
"Column number" refers to the current character position within the current line of the XML document.