VegBank

dateTime format was fixed, but nulls still throw it for a loop- the field should either be omitted, or we could redefine our schema to allow either nulls or xs:DateTime (I could do the latter)

The UTF-8 encoding must be adhered to. In the worst case scenario,
<plantName.plantName>Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth ssp. asplenioides (Michx.) Hultén</plantName.plantName>

got rendered as:
<plantName.plantName>Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth ssp. asplenioides (Michx.) Hult?/plantName.plantName>
in the XML (with the ? being an unprintable character). This wiped out hte closing tag for plantName.plantName and made the file not valid