ssis xml source load adding

I am using SSIS 2005, XML Source, Merge Join to load a XML to SqlServer(that may be my first mistake). In two of the fields where there is no input data the package is adding <cr><lf>. I checked the XML test file it doesn't have the <cr><lf>. Anyone else know how to fix this?

I am using the transformation REPLACE((REPLACE(address1,"\n","")),"\r","") to get rid of them where they presently exist. But it seems that over time all the fields could potentially need this transformation.