Getting parsable deadlock XML from SQL Server error log I need to be able to grab deadlocks from the SQL Server log file (for various reasons, cannot use Extended events (and that includes the default system health extended event) or WMI)

I have enabled the 1222 trace flag and get the deadlocks in the file.

However, SQL Server is stripping out all of the XML chevrons, which makes parsing the trace flag much more difficult and error-prone!

Does anyone know if it's possible to get SQL Server to log the actual XML into the log file so I can load it into an XML parser?
Trace flag 1222 will 


  Returns the resources and types of locks that are participating in a deadlock and also the current command affected, in an XML format that does not comply with any XSD schema.


For the limitations (cannot use - Extended events (and that includes the default system health extended event) or WMI event notifications (script that I wrote to log deadlock info to a table)) that is the max you can get.

Remember that system_health session is running by default.