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In the current version the export format does not contain an XML replacement of wiki markup (see Wikipedia DTD for an older proposal, or Wiki Markup Language). You only get the wikitext as you get when editing the article. (After export you can use alternative parsers to convert wikitext to other format)
The wikipedia.org servers need to do quite a bit of work to convert the wikicode into HTML. That's time consuming both for you and for the wikipedia.org servers, so simply spidering all pages is not the way to go. To access any article in XML, one at a time, access Special:Export/Title of the article. Read more about this at Special:Export.
Alternatively one can copy the wikitext, i.e. the text in the edit box (the source code within the database).. This has a limited use. There is more information in the webpage than conveyed by the wikitext:
It can open almost any file format. It can export to Mediawiki: File menu > export > save as type > MediaWiki. It will save the file as a .txt file which can be opened with any text editor. Copy the wiki code from the text file. You can save any web page as an HTML file, and then open it in LibreOffice Writer. Edit as needed.
Wikiwand - browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox. Kiwix - offline reader for Wikipedia and its other Wikimedia sister projects. Available for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows. GoldenDict - multiplatform dictionary browser with native support for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, the Wikimedia projects, and any MediaWiki-based website.
Pages on Wikipedia can link to equivalent pages in other languages. The English article on Spain includes a link to the Spanish article España in the "Languages" list, and vice versa. These links are primarily maintained in Wikidata and can be overridden in rare cases using local links in the text of the page. Using Wikidata is the preferred ...
Wikipedia's inbuilt Download as PDF option. Other PDF software can be used to create a PDF from the web page, which may give more control over the output. This page offers help with Wikipedia's download tool.
The text may be for a completely new article (see Help:New article), or to expand an existing English Wikipedia article. If text is copied over from another Wiki then appropriate attribution must be placed in the edit history of the article (see the guide line Copying within Wikipedia §Translating from other language Wikimedia projects)