I've been tasked with parsing some daily "xml" files and gathering data from them. I use "xml" as it is an abomination with a .xml extension. The issue is that in the file there are MANY Windows newlines intermixed with the valid Unix line feeds. This results in things like: 

<FormattedReportObjects>
<FormattedReportObject 
xsi:type="FormattedField" Type="xsd:long" FieldName="{Sum_ttx.
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v
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n
t
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}
"
>
<ObjectName>Field2</ObjectName>
<FormattedValue>0</FormattedValue>

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Where the newlines that LOOK correct are line feeds and where there is a line per character is a <CR><LF>.

Anyone have any ideas on how I could fix this? (The obvious "make your XML valid" has been tried and failed) I've tried tr, sed, and perl one liners, all to no avail. E.G. 

perl -ne ' s/\r\n?//g; print ' foo.xml 
sed -e s/^M\n//g foo.xml
tr -d ^M\n foo.xml

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I appreciate any help anyone can provide. Thanks.

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