export Carriage Return with XML DOM?

hello all,
if you have followed my recent threads, I have been working on an XMLDOM output of a customer product catalog. We are bringing up one of our divisions (currently on Oracle) on to NAV, so I am building a solution to fit an existing data structure.

I have 90% of this complete and recently began working on outputting product family description information in my xml product catalogs. This description is historically under 1000 chars long, but greater than 250. I have created a Product family table and a product family description table in a header/lines relationship. I am using Notepad integration with NAV to edit the description to properly maintain carriage returns, etc. in the data. This essentially populates as many lines as are needed to define the description, with a boolean field (carriage return) to capture if the line ends with CR.

In my XMLDOM code, i retrieve/loop my lines and use ADDTEXT to put them into a bigtext variable, including an Addtext of a CR when needed. After completing the loop, i use GETSUBTEXT to copy out the first 1024 characters into a text variable. I then output this variable in my xmldom code. When i view the resulting XML, the carriage returns are gone.

What can i do differently to output my family description as formatted in the XMLDOM? I am using the AddElement function in XML DOM codeunit to create my node text.

thanks in advance!