[CB-4618] Cordova CLI can't create wp8 project from template

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: cordova-cli, cordova-wp8 (DEPRECATED)

Environment

windows 8 simple Chinese edition, cordova 3.0.6

• Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
• Reporter: qi
• Created: 19/Aug/13 06:49
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:29
• Resolved: 14/Jan/14 08:54

Description

1. installed cordova cil on windows 8
2. cordova create xxx
3. cordova platform add wp8

got

D:\Dev\cordova\project-template>cordova -d platform add wp8
cordova library for "wp8" already exists. No need to download. Continuing.
Checking if platform "wp8" passes minimum requirements...
Checking wp8 requirements...
Running ""C:\Users\Qi\.cordova\lib\wp\cordova\3.0.0\wp8\bin\check_reqs"" (output
to follow)
C:\Users\Qi\.cordova\lib\wp\cordova\3.0.0\wp8\bin\check_reqs.js(46, 5) WshShell.
Exec:

Running bin/create for platform "wp8" with command: ""C:\Users\Qi\.cordova\lib\w
p\cordova\3.0.0\wp8\bin\create" "D:\Dev\cordova\project-template\platforms\wp8"
"io.cordova.hellocordova" "HelloCordova"" (output to follow)
platformRoot = C:\Users\Qi\.cordova\lib\wp\cordova\3.0.0\wp8
repoRoot = C:\Users\Qi\.cordova\lib\wp\cordova\3.0.0
Creating Cordova-WP8 Project:
App Name : HelloCordova
Namespace : io.cordova.hellocordova
Path : D:\Dev\cordova\project-template\platforms\wp8
CREATE SUCCESS : D:\Dev\cordova\project-template\platforms\wp8

Error: Non-whitespace before first tag.
Line: 0
Column: 1
Char: 
at error (C:\Users\Qi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\
elementtree\node_modules\sax\lib\sax.js:347:8)
at strictFail (C:\Users\Qi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_mod
ules\elementtree\node_modules\sax\lib\sax.js:364:22)
at Object.write (C:\Users\Qi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_m
odules\elementtree\node_modules\sax\lib\sax.js:603:11)
at XMLParser.feed (C:\Users\Qi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node
_modules\elementtree\lib\parsers\sax.js:48:15)
at ElementTree.parse (C:\Users\Qi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\n
ode_modules\elementtree\lib\elementtree.js:263:10)
at Object.exports.XML (C:\Users\Qi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\
node_modules\elementtree\lib\elementtree.js:593:13)
at Object.config_parser (C:\Users\Qi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordov
a\src\config_parser.js:24:38)
at Object.wp8_parser (C:\Users\Qi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\s
rc\metadata\wp8_parser.js:42:19)
at C:\Users\Qi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\src\prepare.js:56:23

at Array.map (native)

Finally I found following files
wmappmanifest.xml, HelloCordova.csproj, HelloCordova.sln, MainPage.xaml.cs, etc
were corrupt, the start characters of file content were sth like

锘?*

the cli can't parse these files

I doubt it's an encoding issue

Issue Links

• relates to: CB-5359 WP8 not very clear msbuild requirement