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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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          bz_status_UNCONFIRMED "
   title="UNCONFIRMED - FILEOPEN MS Excel 2003 XML fails when header includes <?xml version="1.0"?>"
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137015">137015</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>FILEOPEN MS Excel 2003 XML fails when header includes <?xml version="1.0"?>
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>LibreOffice
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>6.1.5.2 release
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>UNCONFIRMED
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Calc
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>plasticassius@gmail.com
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        <pre>An attempt to open an MS Excel 2003 XML format file that includes the xml
version tag <?xml version="1.0"?> on the first line fails, and an attempt to
import the file as text is made. Alternatively,

$soffice --headless --infilter="MS Excel 2003 XML" --convert-to ods file.xls
Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
<?xml version="1.0"?>
   ^
Error: source file could not be loaded

When the first line is deleted from the file, it opens correctly.

An example of this kind of file can be dowloaded from

<a href="https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239737/?referrer=tickerSearch">https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239737/?referrer=tickerSearch</a>

by clicking on the Download link near the top on the right side of the page.</pre>
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