Error while opening the Eclipse Android Layout Editor

Question

Since yesterday everytime I open my layout Editor in Eclipse for the Android UI I get the following exception:

Unhandled event loop exception

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Answer 1

The same thing happened to me, and I had to dig a lot before I found a solution. In my styles.xml I had an entry where the name and parent attributes were identical:

By removing the parent attribute the layout editor finally worked again: