Just a wild guess. Could be wrong. Perhaps when Android views are instantiated from XML, there is a parser involved, and at construction time it is positioned at that view's XML tags.
Then it's time to instantiate the view's children, and they are in turn passed "bridge" XML parsers that appear to represent complete XML file, but in fact are made to look at just the portion of the original XML file that corresponds to the children. Somewhere in there is support for <merge> tag, and other niceties that Android provides in its XML layout support. Perhaps you could look at Android source, and investigate constructors of various Views (esp. ViewGroup and subclasses) that deal with loading from XML, and see what they do with their arguments before calling super(....). -- Kostya 2010/5/6 Jeremiah Sellars <[email protected]> > Got this in the Eclipse console the next time I opened it, searching > for the top error isn't getting me very far... > > [2010-05-05 13:13:49 - main.xml] Parser is not a BridgeXmlBlockParser! > java.lang.NullPointerException > at android.view.View.<init>(View.java:1841) > at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:326) > at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.MockView.<init>(MockView.java:33) > at android.view.SurfaceView.<init>(SurfaceView.java:45) > at android.view.SurfaceView.<init>(SurfaceView.java:41) > at android.view.SurfaceView.<init>(SurfaceView.java:37) > at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView.<init>(GLSurfaceView.java:189) > at > com.maximusdev.tests3d.ShapeSurfaceView.<init>(ShapeSurfaceView.java: > 14) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native > Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown > Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown > Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at > > com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.ProjectCallback.instantiateClass(Unknown > Source) > at > > com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.ProjectCallback.loadView(Unknown > Source) > at android.view.BridgeInflater.loadCustomView(BridgeInflater.java: > 198) > at > android.view.BridgeInflater.createViewFromTag(BridgeInflater.java: > 126) > at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:617) > at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:407) > at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:296) > at > com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.computeLayout(Bridge.java:377) > at > > com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle1.GraphicalLayoutEditor.computeLayout(Unknown > Source) > at > > com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle1.GraphicalLayoutEditor.recomputeLayout(Unknown > Source) > at > > com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle1.GraphicalLayoutEditor.onConfigurationChange(Unknown > Source) > at > > com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle1.GraphicalLayoutEditor.onTargetChange(Unknown > Source) > at > > com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.LayoutEditor.onDescriptorsChanged(Unknown > Source) > at > > com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.LayoutEditor.initUiRootNode(Unknown > Source) > at > > com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle1.GraphicalLayoutEditor > $1.updateEditor(Unknown Source) > at > > com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle1.GraphicalLayoutEditor > $1.onTargetLoaded(Unknown Source) > at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.AdtPlugin$16.run(Unknown Source) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35) > at > org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java: > 134) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java: > 3855) > at > org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3476) > at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java: > 2405) > at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2369) > at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2221) > at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:500) > at > org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java: > 332) > at > org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java: > 493) > at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java: > 149) > at > > org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java: > 113) > at > > org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java: > 194) > at > > 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