Hi John,
Your original page.xml looks fine, but the merged xml is not well-formed and
neither valid. You should first merge the CDATA sections into the resulting
just like they are; now the CDATA content appears and subsequently all '<'
and '>' appear as '<' and '>'.
When you come up with a well-formed merged XML let us know by posting it.
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