diff --git a/jrnl/Entry.py b/jrnl/Entry.py
index 4504982b..b773e747 100755
--- a/jrnl/Entry.py
+++ b/jrnl/Entry.py
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ class Entry:
         self.starred = starred
         self.modified = False
 
+    @property
+    def fulltext(self):
+        return self.title + " " + self.body
+    
     @staticmethod
     def tag_regex(tagsymbols):
         pattern = r'(?u)\s([{tags}][-+*#/\w]+)'.format(tags=tagsymbols)
diff --git a/jrnl/plugins/xml_exporter.py b/jrnl/plugins/xml_exporter.py
index 3a031769..0af2ed47 100644
--- a/jrnl/plugins/xml_exporter.py
+++ b/jrnl/plugins/xml_exporter.py
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ class XMLExporter(JSONExporter):
         else:
             return entry_el
 
+    @classmethod
+    def entry_to_xml(cls, entry, doc):
+        entry_el = doc.createElement('entry')
+        entry_el.setAttribute('date', entry.date.isoformat())
+        if hasattr(entry, "uuid"):
+            entry_el.setAttribute('uuid', u(entry.uuid))
+        entry_el.setAttribute('starred', u(entry.starred))
+        entry_el.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(entry.fulltext))
+        return entry_el
+
     @classmethod
     def export_journal(cls, journal):
         """Returns an XML representation of an entire journal."""
@@ -36,12 +46,12 @@ class XMLExporter(JSONExporter):
         xml = doc.createElement('journal')
         tags_el = doc.createElement('tags')
         entries_el = doc.createElement('entries')
-        for tag in tags:
+        for count, tag in tags:
             tag_el = doc.createElement('tag')
-            tag_el.setAttribute('name', tag[1])
-            count_node = doc.createTextNode(u(tag[0]))
-            tag.appendChild(count_node)
-            tags_el.appendChild(tag)
+            tag_el.setAttribute('name', tag)
+            count_node = doc.createTextNode(u(count))
+            tag_el.appendChild(count_node)
+            tags_el.appendChild(tag_el)
         for entry in journal.entries:
             entries_el.appendChild(cls.entry_to_xml(entry, doc))
         xml.appendChild(entries_el)
diff --git a/jrnl/util.py b/jrnl/util.py
index f93d8fd8..e7cedae7 100644
--- a/jrnl/util.py
+++ b/jrnl/util.py
@@ -76,10 +76,13 @@ def set_keychain(journal_name, password):
 
 def u(s):
     """Mock unicode function for python 2 and 3 compatibility."""
+    if not isinstance(s, str):
+        s = str(s)
     return s if PY3 or type(s) is unicode else s.decode("utf-8")
 
+
 def py2encode(s):
-    """Encodes to UTF-8 in Python 2 but not r."""
+    """Encodes to UTF-8 in Python 2 but not in Python 3."""
     return s.encode("utf-8") if PY2 and type(s) is unicode else s