[Monodroid] New build error, unable to build

[Chris Erickson]

Grr, I need to get better at digging through those error messages.  I was
following an example from an android project, and that's how they had done
their namespace, so I didn't think to look there.

Thank you,



On 3/2/11 5:21 PM, "Jonathan Pryor" <jpryor at novell.com> wrote:

>On Mar 2, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Chris Erickson wrote:
>> I'm unable to build again, with an unhelpful error.  Can anybody add
>>any insight?
>
>What, the following isn't clear enough: ;-)
>
>> 
>>/Users/chriserickson/Projects/MultiTargetSampleIOS/MultiTargetSampleMonoD
>>roid/obj/Debug/res/layout/main.axml:9: error: No resource identifier
>>found for attribute 'text' in package 'com.cartopac.android.binding'
>
>As per your later email, you have:
>
>    <LinearLayout ...
>            
>xmlns:binding="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.cartopac.android.bin
>ding"
>            >
>        <TextView ...
>                binding:text="TextDisplayBinding"
>                ...
>
>The problem is that `aapt` doesn't like this. At all.
>
>Doing the same thing (custom xmlns declaration + binding:text attribute)
>within Eclipse results in the same error.
>
>However, one thing that stood out to me was:
>
>    
>xmlns:binding="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.cartopac.android.bin
>ding"
>
>This didn't strike me as being "kosher," as you're sticking your own
>custom string after someone elses TLD. Don't do that.
>
>In fact:
>
>    
>http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob;f=too
>ls/aapt/XMLNode.cpp;h=c0d74275a8a6a6883fedeed008ab6e993e4658cc;hb=HEAD#l49
>
>If an XML namespace starts with RESOURCES_PREFIX, aka
>RESOURCES_ROOT_NAMESPACE, aka "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/", then
>`aapt` considers the namespace to be "public" and treats it specially,
>which is your actual problem.
>
>Consequently, if I change the above xml namespace declaration to:
>
>    xmlns:binding="http://com.cartopac.android.binding"
>
>then `aapt` builds the Eclipse project fine, so I believe the actual
>problem is that you chose a terrible xml namespace ID.
>
> - Jon
>
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