CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javaandroideclipse
aperture
aperture

Reputation: 2895

Eclipse suddenly giving parser exception errors on previously working code - Android, Java

I haven't worked on this project in about a week. I've changed nothing at all in the code, but today I open it up and try to launch the Android activity, and Eclipse tells me there are errors:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "activity" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.android.sdklib.xml.AndroidManifestParser.parse(AndroidManifestParser.java:608)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.project.AndroidManifestHelper.parse(AndroidManifestHelper.java:71)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.build.builders.PreCompilerDeltaVisitor.visit(PreCompilerDeltaVisitor.java:209)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.ResourceDelta.accept(ResourceDelta.java:68)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.ResourceDelta.accept(ResourceDelta.java:79)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.ResourceDelta.accept(ResourceDelta.java:48)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.build.builders.PreCompilerBuilder.build(PreCompilerBuilder.java:255)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:629)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:172)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:203)

There are indeed ">" or "/>" after each "activity" in my Manifest file. The only thing that I can think that would cause this, is I moved the folder containing Eclipse.exe from off my desktop, where I had originally downloaded it to, into a sub-folder elsewhere. I've moved it back to my Desktop, but the same error persists. And I am not sure why that would have anything to do with it, but there have been zero changes since the last time I opened this, and it was working just fine then.

Oh, one other thing, I ran Ccleaner the other day, but I don't know how that could be causing this. But I'm at a loss to figure out where this error is coming from. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3612

Answers (3)

GSree
GSree

Reputation: 2898

Check a few things

  1. Is the AVD Manager still available to eclipse. Go to Preferences --> Android and if see if you can see all the AVDs
  2. Clean the project. If the project has libraries attached to it (eg. LVL), clean all the projects. (Project --> Clean) and then build them again. (First build the library then the project)
  3. If the issue still persists, delete the folder 'gen' from projects. Dont worry, this will be regenerated.
  4. If you are using library, make sure the library is available for project. Check this in Project Property.

If you are connected to SVN, make sure SVN is not locked when you do these operations.

Upvotes: 1

aperture
aperture

Reputation: 2895

...an external jar was not being found. I thought those would be added into the workspace, and not called from their origin, e.g. from \Downloads. Apparently not.

Upvotes: 0

kensen john
kensen john

Reputation: 5519

In Eclipse Right click on the project and refresh. Then do a "Project -> Clean", make sure that "Build Automatically" (under Project) is checked.

This might solve the problem.

Upvotes: 1

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