Merge branch 'release/1.4.1' into develop
Allow for an explicit format of "txt" to be passed in to prevent an XML
output type being automatically set
Temporary fix for some nasty non-valid XML characters screwing up
outputs
Disable validation on loading from a dictionary
Fixed up response handling to remove bad characters instead of removing
the whole record
Bumped version number and date
Merge branch 'release/1.4.2'