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ERROR_SXS_XML_E_EXPECTINGTAGEND
ERROR_SXS_XML_E_EXPECTINGTAGEND (0x000036D6) is a Windows Side-by-Side XML parser status for application, assembly, policy, or configuration manifest processing.
This status means the current XML tag or markup construct has reached a grammar point where > should terminate it. The problem is syntactic and can be caused by stray text, a malformed attribute, or a generator that truncated or concatenated markup.
XML rule involved
XML start tags and end tags have explicit closing delimiters, while empty elements use />. If attribute parsing has already gone wrong, the first visible symptom can still be an expected tag-end error.
What to inspect
- Inspect the full tag beginning before the reported position and find the token occupying the place where
>should occur. - Validate attribute quoting and equals signs in the same tag because malformed attributes can shift the parser state.
- Compare embedded manifest resources with their source XML when the linker or manifest tool generated the final bytes.
Convert an SxS trace and repair the earliest parser error in the identified manifest; later activation-context errors are not meaningful until the tag grammar is valid.
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