PHP xml_get_current_line_number() Function

The xml_get_current_line_number() function gets the current line number for an XML parser.

This function returns the current line number on success, or FALSE on failure.

int xml_get_current_line_number ( resource $parser )

Gets the current line number for the given XML parser.

Example -

The output of the code above could be:

ERROR: Mismatched tag Line: 5 Column: 41

ParameterDescription
parserA reference to the XML parser to get line number from.

Return Values

This function returns FALSE if parser does not refer to a valid parser, or else it returns which line the parser is currently at in its data buffer.