I am not sure what you are doing but <url></url> is html so it will not display on a page. If you want to display the html then you are going to have to do something like this.
Response.Write(HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("<url>Test</url>"));
Or in your case
Response.Write(HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(basketXML)
Hope this helps.
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