Nevermind - I created the following template that works well
%OPTIONS%
replace="<<-><"
replace="><->>"
replace=""<->""
replace="'<->'"
replace="Á<->Á"
replace="é<->é"
replace="&<->&"
filter="XML Files|*.xml"
encoding="UTF8"
imagepath="images\"
%OPTIONS%
%HEAD%<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog Format="42" Version="4.2.0 (2014-04-20)" Date="{%value=231} {%value=232}">
<Catalog>
<Properties/>
<Contents>
%HEAD%<Movie Number="{%value=num}"
Checked="True" ColorTag="0"
OriginalTitle="{%value=origtitle}"
FormattedTitle="{%value=title}"
Director="{%value=directors}"
Actors="{%value=actors}"
Producer="{%value=producers}"
Composer="{%value=composers}"
Writer="{%value=writers}"
Country="{%value=country}"
Year="{%value=year}"
Description="{%value=description}"
Comments="{%value=comment}"
Category="{%value=genre}"
URL="{%value=url}"
Date="{#StringReplace '{#ExtractFilePath {#StringReplace '{#StringReplace '{#StringReplace '{#StringReplace '{%value=dateadded}' ':' ''}:\i.txt' ' AM:\i.txt' ''}' ' PM:\i.txt' ''}' ' ' ':\'}}' ':\' ''}"
DateWatched="{%value=viewdate}"
Rating="{%value=imdbrating}"
Length="{%value=length}"
Subtitles="{%value=subs}"
MediaLabel="{%value=medialabel}"
MediaType="{%value=type}"
Languages="{%value=langs}"
Resolution="{%value=resolution}"
Framerate="{%value=framerate}"
VideoFormat="{%value=videocodec}"
VideoBitrate="{%value=videobitrate}"
AudioFormat="{%value=audiocodec}"
AudioBitrate="{%value=audiobitrate}"
Size="{%value=size}"
Picture="{%value=poster}"
/>
%FOOT%
</Contents>
</Catalog>
</AntMovieCatalog>
%FOOT%
