findViewById returns NULL when using Fragment

I'm late, but for anyone else having this issue. You should be inflating your view in the onCreateView method. Then override the onCreateActivity method and you can use getView().findViewById there.

@Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup     container, Bundle savedInstanceState) 
{
     return      inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment, container, false);
}

You should inflate the layout of the fragment on onCreateView method of the Fragment then you can simply access it's elements with findViewById on your Activity.

In this Example my fragment layout is a LinearLayout so I Cast the inflate result to LinearLayout.

    public class FrgResults extends Fragment 
    {
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) 
        {
            //some code
            LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout)inflater.inflate(R.layout.frg_result, container, false);
            //some code
            return ll;
        }
    }

Try like this on your fragments on onCreateView

public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    if (container == null) {
        return null;
    }

    LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout )inflater.inflate(R.layout.tab_frag1_layout, container, false);
EditText txtXML = (EditText) ll.findViewById(R.id.txtXML);

    return ll;
}