Likely beyond my Perl skill level at the moment, but I'll keep it in mind. Meanwhile, I wrote a small function to fix the data. I also found code strings in the original data that we decided needed fixin', so this function might be all I need at the moment. 

sub FixXML {
    $parm = $_[0];
    $parm =~ s/&/&/g;
    $parm =~ s/>/>/g;
    $parm =~ s/&lt;/</g;
    $parm =~ s/&quot;/"/g;
    $parm =~ s/&apos;/'/g;
    $parm =~ s/&#xA;/\n/g;
    $parm =~ s/&#xa;/\n/g;
    $parm =~ s/&#xD;/\r/g;
    $parm =~ s/&#xd;/\r/g;
    $parm =~ s/&#x9;/\t/g;
    return($parm);
}

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In reply to Re^3: Spreadsheet::XLSX returning &lt; &gt; and &amp; instead of < > & by psynk
in thread Spreadsheet::XLSX returning &lt; &gt; and &amp; instead of < > & by psynk

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