Windows error 14005 (ERROR_SXS_MANIFEST_PARSE

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Description: Windows could not parse the side-by-side manifest because it contains XML syntax errors.

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ERROR_SXS_MANIFEST_PARSE_ERROR

ERROR_SXS_MANIFEST_PARSE_ERROR means that the SxS loader found XML syntax errors in the manifest. The final process-start failure can be far from the actual cause, so the line and file reported by SideBySide tracing are more useful than the generic launch dialog.

How to investigate

Run sxstrace around the failing launch and use its parsed output to locate the manifest and reported line.
Validate the exact deployed XML, including quoted attributes, namespace declarations, and closing tags.
Repair the first parser error before interpreting later errors because one malformed construct can cause a cascade of follow-up messages.

A manifest that is valid in a source repository can still fail after packaging if an installer, transform, or build step rewrote it.

Microsoft: sxstrace

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