Error: "Error parsing XML: XML or text declaration not at start of entity"
android, eclipse
Solution
There can be two cases -
case 1 - If you have an empty space before the first statement.
case 2 - If you have accidently put the same namespacing statement twice ie - ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?
I did it once and landed with the same error of yours after correcting it my code runs fine.
Problem
I am making a Sudoku Android app and I am getting the following errors under main.xml: "error: Error parsing XML: XML or text declaration not at start of entity" Any help would be appreciated. Here is my code. I put '✗' next to the error ``` `✗<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent"> <TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@String/continue_label"/> <Button android:id="@+id/continue_button" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/continue_label" /> <Button android:id="@+id/new_button" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/new_game_label"/> <Button android:id="@+id/about_button" android:layout_Width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/new_game_label"/> <Button android:id="@+id/exit_button" android:layout_Width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/exit_label"/> </LinearLayout> ``` `