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Bug 367353

Summary: An invalid "plugin.xml" causes the automatic "Plug-in dependencies" library to remain silently empty
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: tiphaine.turpin
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description tiphaine.turpin CLA 2011-12-21 11:35:22 EST 
Build Identifier: M20100211-1343

I accidentally added an "extension" element inside another one in "plugin.xml" (instead of inside the "plugin" element"). The xml documents was well-formed, though. I only realized the error because the library named "Plug-in dependencies" (in the project configuration, under Java Build Path/Libraries) was not being populated.

Note: with a more recent version of Eclipse (3.7), I got a "stack empty" exception (and later a null pointer).

Conclusion: a torough checking of the plugin.xml would be welcome, to avoid to build on a corrupted basis.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Break the "plugin.xml" file of a plugin project as described above
2. Clear ~/.eclipse and ~/workspace
3. Import this project (File/Import/General/Existing into workspace)  
4. Open the project's Properties/Java Build Path/Libraries
5. Unfold "Plug-in dependencies" -> should be empty
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2019-09-02 13:04:57 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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