Exported Live Templates have no newline

Hi I'm trying to add a live template to a plugin. The template works as intended when I created it for my instance. However when exporting the template the newlines are gone and when I run the plugin the newlines are not there, subsequently.

What I want to happen when activating the template in java:

// %open[]

// %close[]

What happens:

// %open[]         // %close[]

How I define it in Settings>Editor>LiveTemplates

$COMMENT$ %open[$VAR$] $END_COMMENT$
$SELECTION$$END$
$COMMENT$ %close[$VAR$] $END_COMMENT$

And here is how the xml gets defined when I export it:

-<template
    useStaticImport="true"
    toShortenFQNames="true"
    toReformat="false"
    description="&amp;begin[]"
    value="$COMMENT$ %open[$VAR$] $END_COMMENT$ $SELECTION$$END$ $COMMENT$ %close[$VAR$] $END_COMMENT$"
    name="open">


    <variable name="COMMENT" alwaysStopAt="false" defaultValue="" expression="commentStart()"/>
    <variable name="VAR" alwaysStopAt="true" defaultValue="" expression=""/>
    <variable name="END_COMMENT" alwaysStopAt="false" defaultValue="" expression="commentEnd()"/>
    -<context>
        <option value="true" name="OTHER"/>
    </context>
</template>