How to stop Eclipse from trying to run XML files?

You can tell Eclipse to launch your latest launch configuration, instead of attempting to create a launch configuration for the current document/selection. Under Preferences -> Run/Debug -> Launching, you can select "Always launch the previously launched application".

EDIT: You probably have a plugin which defines a launch shortcut which triggers on XML-files. This sounds like a pretty dumb thing to do.


Thanks to JesperE's answer I solved it by "Always launch the previously launched application".

Just wanted to add that I didn't have the problem with launching xml until I install "PHP Development Tools".

My conclusion is that in the future I might consider having two separate installs of Eclipse:

  • One with clean Java and Android programming (possibly other stuff)
  • And one with PHP and possibly other web-related stuff

My solution is uninstall XSL plugin.