Word Layout Compile Bug about al HOT 3 CLOSED

I have a fix for this. The reason why this happens is quite silly, we're not handling lines that are whitespace-only in the custom XML part of the word document. Usually this XML part is not hand-edited but generated by Word, so usually that assumption is fine but in this case the layout has one such line.

A possible workaround to unblock you while we validate and release the fix is to re-create the word layout. That might be faster than waiting for the fix to be released.

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Yes that's what I did, regenerated the layout and copied the content over from the old layout.
Thanks for the information about the eventual fix.

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The fix for this issue has been checked in to the master branch. It will be available in the bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox-master Docker image starting from platform build number 25.0.17268.0 and VS Code Extension Version 14.0.958538.

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For more details on code branches and docker images please read:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nav/2018/05/03/al-developer-previews-multiple-releases-and-github/
https://freddysblog.com/2020/06/25/working-with-artifacts/

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