Windows error 14055 (ERROR_SXS_XML_E_INVALIDATROOTLEVEL): meaning

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Description: Manifest Parse Error : Invalid at the top level of the document.

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ERROR_SXS_XML_E_INVALIDATROOTLEVEL

ERROR_SXS_XML_E_INVALIDATROOTLEVEL (0x000036E7) is a Windows Side-by-Side XML parser status for application, assembly, policy, or configuration manifest processing.

XML permits one document element and only limited miscellaneous material outside it. Character data, a second structural construct, or misplaced declaration content at the top level can therefore fail before the Side-by-Side manifest schema is considered.

Parser boundary

The XML document production is a prolog, one element, and trailing miscellaneous content. The Misc production covers comments, processing instructions, and whitespace; arbitrary text beside the root element is not allowed.

What to inspect

Inspect bytes before the opening root element and after its closing tag for accidental text emitted by a build script.
Check whether two manifest fragments were concatenated without creating one legal enclosing document element.
Remove diagnostic banners, byte dumps, or template output that was written directly into the XML file outside markup.

The first parse location from sxstrace tells whether the invalid top-level material precedes or follows the manifest root; fix that structure before checking SxS schema fields.

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