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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def xhtml_unescape(value: Union[str, bytes]) -> str: """Un-escapes an XML-escaped string."""

    return re.sub(r"&(#?)(\w+?);", _convert_entity, _unicode(value))