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I had to help someone import a 15MB WordPress WXR file today which failed because it was much too big (getting Fatal Errors). I ended up splitting the WRX as described by the article Import Large WordPress WXR File.

Each WRX needs 3 parts t o comply with the schema:

Header:
<rss version=”2.0?
xmlns:content=”http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/”
xmlns:wfw=”http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/”
xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”
xmlns:wp=”http://wordpress.org/export/1.0/”>
<channel>
including all info like category, tags, etc to just before the first <item>

Body:
Your <item> tags

Footer:
</channel>
</rss>

I had accidentally saved the file without UTF8 encoding and that messed up the import badly. You need to make sure it is UTF8 if you have special characters.