PRB: HRESULT C00CE56E "System Does Not Support the Specified Encoding" Error Message with MSXML

When you load a remote XML document from a Web server by using either XMLHTTP or IXMLDocument::Load, you may receive the following error message: This error is most prevalent when you use a Java-based middle-tier application framework.

As of version 2.6, MSXML passes all XML documents through Mlang.dll to verify their encoding. If Mlang.dll encounters a non-standard encoding string, it returns an error.

"ISO8859_1" is the canonical representation of the Latin-1 character encoding string in the Java language and class libraries. The standard that is defined by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, however, is "ISO-8859-1", which is not an accepted alias.

To resolve this problem, do either of the following:

• Change the character encoding string in the relevant Java server environment from "ISO8859_1" to "ISO-8859-1". -or-
  
  
• Use IXMLDOMDocument::get_responseBody to retrieve the data as a raw buffer of bytes. If you are developing the application in Microsoft Visual C++, you may define an HGLOBAL handle for your data and use CreateStreamOnHGlobal to make processing the data easier.

This behavior is by design.

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