Importing XML into Premiere Pro CC: "Generic Error"

First off, I've read all the threads relating to this problem from others, but I have a few questions. I'm fairly new to Adobe Premiere (used FCP 7 forever) so I'm still figuring it out, so please bear with me.
I received a hard drive from a client who told me he digitized all his files into Premiere. (A screen shot is below.) When I went to import these into APP CC, it says "The Importer reporter a generic error."
In the Video folder (another screen shot below), there are dozens of MXF files. These import fine. Video and audio are both good.
There are 37 XML files, and 37 MXF files, so it seems they correlate perfectly. Should I just disregard those XMLs? Should I be using these MXFs instead?
Again, I'm a newbie, so if anybody could shed any kind of light on this for me, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

Actually, there's nothing wrong here. These XMLs aren't to be imported. They're just sidecar metadata files generated by the camera vendor, they don't import as assets by themselves.
What you really want to do is pull up the Media Browser panel to look at these clips & import your selects into the project, instead of using finder / import files. The Media Browser abstracts out all the junk that you don't care about & will just show you thumbnails of the clips. It'll even represent spanned clips as just one large piece of media.

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