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Article ID: 301356 - Last Review: February 12, 2007 - Revision: 1.2
FIX: MSXML Does Not Parse Slash Mark Character with Base64 Encoded Data
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When you parse or load XML base64 encoded data with the MSXML parser version 2.0a and the data contains the slash mark (/) character, you may receive the following error message:
Run-time error '-2147467259 (80004005)':
Error parsing '...' as bin.base64 datatype.
The base64 character set contains the following characters, with decimal values ranging from 0 to 63:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/
The MSXML parser version 2.0a (Msxml.dll, file version 5.0.2314.1000) that ships with Internet Explorer version 5.0a recognizes the asterisk (*) instead of the slash mark character (/) of the Base64 character set.
The bug has been fixed in the MSXML parser version 2.5a (5.0.2919.6303), which ships with Internet Explorer version 5.01 and in later versions of the parser.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
For the latest version and service packs of Internet Explorer, see the following Microsoft Web site:
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
- Microsoft XML Parser 2.0
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