diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/extractor/XSSFExportToXml.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/extractor/XSSFExportToXml.java
index edd0665b51..e9b75e5365 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/extractor/XSSFExportToXml.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/extractor/XSSFExportToXml.java
@@ -293,14 +293,17 @@ public class XSSFExportToXml implements Comparator<String>{
            if (cell.getCachedFormulaResultType() == Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING) {
                value = cell.getStringCellValue();
            } else {
-               value += cell.getNumericCellValue();
+               if (DateUtil.isCellDateFormatted(cell)) {
+                  value = getFormattedDate(cell);
+               } else {
+                  value += cell.getNumericCellValue();
+               }
            }
            break;
         
         case XSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC: 
              if (DateUtil.isCellDateFormatted(cell)) {
-                  DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
-                  value += sdf.format(cell.getDateCellValue());
+                  value = getFormattedDate(cell);
               } else {
                  value += cell.getRawValue();
               }
@@ -321,7 +324,10 @@ public class XSSFExportToXml implements Comparator<String>{
         return elementName.matches(".*:.*")?elementName.split(":")[1]:elementName;
     }
 
-
+    private String getFormattedDate(XSSFCell cell) {
+        DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
+        return sdf.format(cell.getDateCellValue());
+    }
 
     private Node getNodeByXPath(String xpath,Node rootNode,Document doc,boolean createMultipleInstances) {
         String[] xpathTokens = xpath.split("/");
diff --git a/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xssf/extractor/TestXSSFExportToXML.java b/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xssf/extractor/TestXSSFExportToXML.java
index 3e279426c3..9621b91eb4 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xssf/extractor/TestXSSFExportToXML.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xssf/extractor/TestXSSFExportToXML.java
@@ -279,8 +279,8 @@ public final class TestXSSFExportToXML extends TestCase {
            assertNotNull(xmlData);
            assertFalse(xmlData.equals(""));
            
-           String date = xmlData.split("<DATE>")[1].split("</DATE>")[0].trim();
-           assertEquals("2012-01-13", date);
+           assertEquals("2012-01-13", xmlData.split("<DATE>")[1].split("</DATE>")[0].trim());
+           assertEquals("2012-02-16", xmlData.split("<FORMULA_DATE>")[1].split("</FORMULA_DATE>")[0].trim());
            
            parseXML(xmlData);
            
diff --git a/test-data/spreadsheet/55927.xlsx b/test-data/spreadsheet/55927.xlsx
index e3d5a52cc0..62fd046f52 100644
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