Footnotes and XML

I've painfully discovered that footnotes will not export as XML. I've got many, many books, some with hundreds, if not thousands, of footnotes.
So, I'm wondering if there would be a way in a script to grab all of the footnotes in a document and plop them down as regular paragraphs, but, with a style tag of "footnotes." Something like that. Then, in the xml export I can tell it to make all footnote paragraph styles into footnote xml tags. Then I should be OK.
Thanks,
Peter

Thanks. Yes, I found another script that does the same. I used it and it worked. It made them all into endnotes. But, then, when I exported as XML, I discovered that ID doesn't put in any line-endings. Another issue entirely, in another forum.
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