Why would I get an error on a comment?

Question

Why would I get, "error:Error parsing XML: not well-formed (invalid token)"

on this line (which is a comment):

<!-- added fillViewport as preventive measure after reading http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2599837/linearlayout-not-expanding-inside-a-scrollview -->

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could we get more context? I've run only the comment through a validator and there were no errors. — ma cılay, Mar 01 '12 at 02:21

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 01 '12 at 02:38

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I'm gonna guess you added that comment in the middle of a tag. You can't do that. This is wrong:

  <ScrollView
     android:... <!-- this won't work -->
     android:...
  >
  </ScrollView>

Just move it to be outside of the < and >.

answered Mar 01 '12 at 02:38

dmon

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 01 '12 at 02:30

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Try removing the dashes in the URL. Try showing all non-printable characters in your text editor, as you may have copied a control character.

answered Mar 01 '12 at 02:30

Chloe

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 01 '12 at 02:32

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Remove the comment and type it back by hand. You most probably have unprintable characters in there.

answered Mar 01 '12 at 02:32

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Why would I get an error on a comment?

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