I just confirm that Onur already wrote: there are phonegap.xml files (the so-called cordova.xml right now, after Phonegap became the Apache Cordova project) and plugin.xml, and you continue to receive the error above until you provide these two file in the res / xml folder.
I ran into a problem when cloning my Phonegap project, created with the release of 0.9, and updating Phonegap files to 1.2 or Cordova 1.5.
Obviously, I did not pay enough attention to the “change files” because there were no XML files needed for 0.9x release.
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