wix - error CNDL0004: The file element contains an unexpected attribute “src” when running from the command line

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When I run the below command from the command line for the WIx installer after migrated from version 2.0 to 4.0

E:\Code\PCPE\builder>ant -v -f Build.xml -Dlabel =.001 install

I am getting the below error:

error CNDL0004: The file element contains an unexpected attribute "src"

I am seeing the error in EMR_COMMON.wxs file in line no 4.

  1. Fragment>
  2. DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLDIR">
  3. Component Id="component_COMMON" Guid="" DiskId="1">
  4. File Id="file0_COMMON" Name="apcrun.exe" src="E:\Code\apcrun.exe"/>

I am thinking that "src" attribute is deprecated and it should be replaced with some other attribute.

But here i can't directly replace the "src" attribute in EMR_COMMON.wxs file bcz it is generating from "Build.xml".

So what are the attributes i need to change in "Build.xml" file to get the appropriate attribute inplace of "src" in "EMR_COMMON.wxs" file?

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Yes, src is deprecated in favor of Source for File Elements (towards bottom). As to Build.xml, is that an Ant build script? Are you using Visual Studio, Eclipse, or something else? – Stein Åsmul
You can add an answer from yourself and set it as accepted. So whoever has a similar issue can find it. – Stein Åsmul

1 Answers

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I resolved the issue. I write the below C# code to replace "src" attribute name with "Source" attribute. For this first i got the "File" node list, get the count of the file nodes and then used XmlNodeList fileNodeList = compElement.GetElementsByTagName("File"); XmlElement fileElement = (XmlElement)fileNodeList[i]; String srcString = fileElement.GetAttribute("src"); fileElement.SetAttribute("Source", srcString); fileElement.RemoveAttribute("src");