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Excel is likely to save it as whatever it was in the first place, which is why you keep getting xml. Move your originals to xls and it'll try to keep saving them as xls.

Excel confuses this by calling everything xls. anything from xml, csv, to an actual xls file can be saved under the xls extension sometimes.
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py_xls2html(1)						      General Commands Manual						    py_xls2html(1)

NAME
py_xls2html - convert an Excel xls file to a html formatted file SYNOPSIS
py_xls2html input-file DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. py_xls2html takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a html formatted file. Output is sent to stdout. Additional utility scripts can be found in the tools/ directory. OPTIONS
This program does not take any command line options. AUTHOR
pyexcelerator and py_xls2html were written by Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>. This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. SEE-ALSO pyexcelerator(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2csv(1) October 12, 2006 py_xls2html(1)