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Power Query - Convert the data from XML column into the same column with line break

Hi,   I have a file mixed with normal data and with a column of data in XML format. How can I convert the column from XML format to normal text format with line break?   Here is an example. Ori...
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    AlB
    6 years ago

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    What is it that you are trying to do ultimately? Have you tried the XML parser functionality Power Query has? Perhaps it would be handy in this case? Try the following. Probably not the most elegant solution but i think it will do. You might want to make it into a function if you have multiple rows with XML content. The last step shows the content in the same row separated by a line break. The step before the last one shows each item from the XML in a different row of the table. It wasn't clear to me which one of the two options you meant

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("xY9LC4JAFIX/ysW1odDSlflKfJJSC3Mx5iWHxkZ0LPz3RUoEFYGb7vLjnMP9skza96q6PBh9J3htU2TlAyC83Rj0cBgDeiuuvD2NVHnib70tYT1OzbLCjl4QfFIggwXEpMEWAhNi3fB0xw2dafWl9HlV+fn3XD2D1zWeRTfDb7SwTDCiIPat1AI72oDthm6yvlMniszk/4IBEdhSwmYI+rSUIeWNDAUvBw30VQI7pMdKaJAIRDbHTsrzGw==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}),
        #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Text.SplitAny([Column1],"<>")),
        #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom"),
        #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Expanded Custom", each ([Custom] <> "" and [Custom] <> "                " and [Custom] <> "                  ")),
        #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Filtered Rows", "Custom.1", each if Text.Contains([Column1],"<" & [Custom] & ">") then 1 else 0),
        #"Filtered Rows1" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom1", each ([Custom.1] = 0)),
        #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Filtered Rows1",{"Custom.1"}),
        #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Removed Columns", {"Column1"}, {{"Custom", each Text.Combine([Custom], Character.FromNumber(10
    )), type text}})
    in
        #"Grouped Rows"

     

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