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Symptoms
When you open an XML document that uses a locally referenced XSL or XSLT path that contains multibyte characters, the document may render as blank in Windows Internet Explorer 9.
The XSL or XSLT path can be expressed in a combination of single-byte character set (SBCS), double-byte character set (DBCS), or multibyte character set (MBCS) characters. Because of a memory allocation problem in the XML parser that is used in the Internet Explorer 9 Standards document mode, the XML document does not render.
Resolution
Update information
To resolve this issue, install the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. To do this, go to Microsoft Update.
For technical information about the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer, go to the following Microsoft website:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspxNote This update was first included in security update 2898785.
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2898785 MS13-097: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer: December 10, 2013
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
Workaround
If the content is hosted on a web server and contains multibyte characters in the XSLT path, you can encode the multibyte characters to work around this issue.
Note You cannot work around this issue if the content is opened from a local computer and the content contains multibyte characters in the XSLT path.
References
See the terminology that Microsoft uses to describe software updates.
