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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:
Sometimes an article is published here in another language by mistake, or is poorly translated into English from one of the approximately 300 Wikipedias in other languages, and requires retranslation or attention from bilingual editors to bring it up to English Wikipedia standards. Articles in poorly translated English should be listed here.
Linking should occur only on the first appearance of a term, except in a longer article, where a term will be linked once in the lead and once in the body of the article. An extremely long article may have repeated instances of linking towards the bottom of the page. Avoid overlinking; common words are no longer linked. Less important:
What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; Permanent link; Page information; Get shortened URL; Download QR code
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 )
If you want to import many articles, it is usually a good idea to ask first if the material is appropriate for Wikipedia, for example, on Wikipedia:Village pump. If there is a very high number of articles, you may also want to consider writing or using a bot (i.e. a script) to import them; see Wikipedia:Bots for guidelines. Over 30,000 articles ...