Magento2: Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML(): Extra content at the end of the document in Entity

Question

I added one custom HelloWorld module in a fresh Magento 2 installation and I got the following error:

Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML(): Extra content at the end of the document in Entity, line: 8 in /var/www/magento2/vendor/magento/framework/Config/Dom.php on line 365

What can be the exact cause for this issue?

I get this error even when I install the sample module from Magento repo. I have not done any edits to the sample module.

It was my custom module causing the problem. Sample module from magento github works fine.

Answer 1

Sounds like one of your XML files in your module has bad syntax. Make sure every opening tag has a closing tag, and that there is only one root level XML tag per XML file.

Answer 2

If you don't know where is empty file and you are using linux. Use this command to get list of empty files.

open terminal and type find /path/to/dest -type d -empty

Answer 3

My module was named Chapagain_HelloWorld. The problematic XML file was app/code/Chapagain/HelloWorld/etc/frontend/routes.xml

I don't know what exactly caused the problem. I just replaced the code present there with a similar code from another module and changed the module name, route id, and front name, and then the module worked without any error. But, I could not see any difference between the replaced code and the problematic code.

Here the code of my routes.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/etc/routes.xsd">
    <router id="standard">
        <route id="helloworld" frontName="helloworld">
            <module name="Chapagain_HelloWorld" />
        </route>
    </router>
</config>

Answer 4

For version 2.0 remove the XML version tag at starting of your XML files.

I don't know why but after removing it my code starts working, while the above works for version>2.1