title: Failed to parse XML file for android
body: <p>I am basically brand new to this and working through an example in a book. 
  my button1.xml looks like this.... </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"&gt;
      &lt;item android:state_pressed="true" 
          android:drawable="@drawable/buttonpressed" /&gt;
      &lt;item android:state_focused="true" 
          android:drawable="@drawable/buttonfocused" /&gt;
      &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/buttonnormal" /&gt;
  &lt;/selector&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Main.xml...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:orientation="vertical" &gt;
  
      &lt;ImageButton
          android:id="@+id/button_one"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:paddingTop="5px"
          android:src="@drawable/button1"&gt;
      &lt;/ImageButton&gt;
  
  &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I keep getting this error </p>
  
  <pre><code>eclipse.buildId=M20110909-1335
  java.version=1.7.0_01
  java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
  BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_US
  Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64
  
  Error
  Tue Oct 25 12:19:07 CDT 2011
  main.xml: Failed to parse file C:\Users\kpreese\workspace\Chapter7\res\drawable\button1.xml
  
  org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Binary XML file line #4: &lt;item&gt; tag requires a 'drawable' attribute or child tag defining a drawable
      at android.graphics.drawable.StateListDrawable.inflate(StateListDrawable.java:178)
      at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXmlInner(Drawable.java:832)
      at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXml(Drawable.java:769)
      at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.ResourceHelper.getDrawable(ResourceHelper.java:208)
      at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.android.BridgeTypedArray.getDrawable(BridgeTypedArray.java:775)
      at android.widget.ImageView.&lt;init&gt;(ImageView.java:118)
      at android.widget.ImageButton.&lt;init&gt;(ImageButton.java:85)
      at android.widget.ImageButton.&lt;init&gt;(ImageButton.java:81)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:576)
      at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.android.BridgeInflater.onCreateView(BridgeInflater.java:84)
      at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:644)
      at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:669)
      at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.android.BridgeInflater.createViewFromTag(BridgeInflater.java:129)
      at android.view.LayoutInflater_Delegate.rInflate(LayoutInflater_Delegate.java:83)
      at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:702)
      at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:479)
      at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:367)
      at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.RenderSessionImpl.inflate(RenderSessionImpl.java:324)
      at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.createSession(Bridge.java:321)
      at com.android.ide.common.rendering.LayoutLibrary.createSession(LayoutLibrary.java:325)
      at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.RenderService.createRenderSession(RenderService.java:372)
      at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart.renderWithBridge(GraphicalEditorPart.java:1317)
      at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart.recomputeLayout(GraphicalEditorPart.java:1071)
      at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart$ConfigListener.onConfigurationChange(GraphicalEditorPart.java:493)
      at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart.onTargetChange(GraphicalEditorPart.java:973)
      at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.LayoutEditor.onDescriptorsChanged(LayoutEditor.java:568)
      at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.LayoutEditor.initUiRootNode(LayoutEditor.java:490)
      at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart$TargetListener.updateEditor(GraphicalEditorPart.java:787)
      at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart$TargetListener.onTargetLoaded(GraphicalEditorPart.java:752)
      at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.AdtPlugin$11.run(AdtPlugin.java:1613)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:135)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:4140)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3757)
      at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2696)
      at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2660)
      at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2494)
      at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$7.run(Workbench.java:674)
      at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
      at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:667)
      at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
      at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:123)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
      at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
      at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
      at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:344)
      at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:622)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1386)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can't seem to figure this out. I searched and found many similar problems, but didn't find any of the errors myself. Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>-- I did try switching two of the files (buttonpressed and buttonfocused) and still received the error at the same line of code. Then replaced all of the files with the ic_launcher file, this also resulted in the same error. If I set the android.src="#00000000" it does work. I don't know if this helps but seems to indicate the problem is not the files but in the button1.xml code. </p>
  
  <p>so I got it fixed I think. I am not really sure what I did but retype the 
      android:src="@drawable/button1">
  line. and poof it works. Thank you both for your help!  </p>