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

On a related design note, loading up contents of a URL should never Force Close an activity - I recommend putting all this into an AsyncTask implementation and report or retry after you are back on the GUI thread.