Parse Exception: At line 1, column 0: no element found

Question

I have a weird issue. I receive the following error that causes a force-close:

org.apache.harmony.xml.ExpatParser$ParseException: At line 1, column 0:

Answer 1

Even I faced the same issue. I was first using the InputStream in Scanner to print the content of it. And then trying to pass it in XML parser.

The problem was that I was not closing the Scanner object. And using the Inputstream in parser.

After closing the scanner object, I was able to tackle this issue.