So I was writing a script to pull out some old xml data, and I happened upon this error:
XML parsing error: An invalid character was found in text content.
It probably would have taken me centuries to figure out what character it didn't like, so I tried concatenating the following line to the front of the xml column in the SELECT statement I used to populate the cursor for openxml, and voila, no more error! I guess bumbles really do bounce.
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