error: Error parsing XML: not well-formed (invalid token) …?

Question

I am working on an application, with following XML. but whenI try to clean/build my project the following error occurs:

\"error: Error parsing XML: not well-formed (

Answer 1

Verify that you don't have any spaces or tabs before

also refresh and clean your project in eclipse.

I get this error every now and then and the above suggestions fix the issue 99% of the time