Can Wordpress import preserve text formatting?

Hi,

I'm hoping to import a pretty large blog from wordpress in XML format. When I tried my first import, the blog posts lost all line breaks.

The XML looks like this:

<content:encoded><![CDATA[this is paragraph 1.

This is paragraph 2]]></content:encoded>

But it will come out like this: (Note the lack of space after "."

This is paragraph1.This is paragraph 2

Is there a way to edit the XML so that the content imports correctly?

Thanks