XML : Android: SQLite cursor.getPosition() returns string?

c.getString(c.getPosition()) returns 1 for first element, He for second element, Lithium for third element, and 9.0122 for fourth element.

These are very weird position values to me and I am trying to make sense of this.

Should it be returning the atomicNumber which was set as PRIMARY KEY? I am new to Android, in the documentation it says that cursor.getPosition():

"Returns the current position of the cursor in the row set"

Does this mean it returns the ROWID or the current position in the column?

  public void Test(){      String URL = "content://com.apress.gerber.calculator.PeriodicTable/elements";      Uri element = Uri.parse(URL);        Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(element, null, null, null, PeriodicTable.ATOMIC_NUMBER);        if (c.moveToFirst()) {          do{              Toast.makeText(this,                      c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(PeriodicTable.ATOMIC_NUMBER)) +                              ", " +  c.getString(c.getColumnIndex( PeriodicTable.SYMBOL)) +                              ", " + c.getString(c.getColumnIndex( PeriodicTable.NAME)) +                              ", " + c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(PeriodicTable.MOLAR_MASS)) +                              ", POSITION: " + c.getString(c.getPosition()),                      Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();          } while (c.moveToNext());      }      else Toast.makeText(this, "Database is empty.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();    }    

Element.xml that is parsed into the SQLite database:

  <elements>      <element>          <molarMass>1.0079</molarMass>          <name>Hydrogen</name>          <symbol>H</symbol>          <atomicNumber>1</atomicNumber>      </element>        <element>          <molarMass>4.0026</molarMass>          <name>Helium</name>          <symbol>He</symbol>          <atomicNumber>2</atomicNumber>      </element>        <element>          <molarMass>6.941</molarMass>          <name>Lithium</name>          <symbol>Li</symbol>          <atomicNumber>3</atomicNumber>      </element>        <element>          <molarMass>9.0122</molarMass>          <name>Beryllium</name>          <symbol>Be</symbol>          <atomicNumber>4</atomicNumber>      </element>  </elements>    

SQLite table statement:

  static final String CREATE_DB_TABLE =          " CREATE TABLE " + ELEMENTS_TABLE_NAME +                  " ( atomicNumber INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC, " +                  " symbol TEXT NOT NULL, " +                  " name TEXT NOT NULL, " +                  " molarMass TEXT NOT NULL);";