Thanks for your quick response KChriste, I will think a little harder on this. Using three dual input to make a 4 input XOR sounds like the right way to go.
There are two interpretations of what a 4 input xor gate is.
A gate whose output is high when an odd number of inputs are high.
Or,
A gate whose output is high when only one input is high.
The first (most common interpretation) is implemented by cascading 2 input xor gates, the output from the first (previous) gate is xored with the next input until all inputs have been connected.