Preserve image references when saving as xml

I am trying to save some documents in XML format, but framemaker is creating .mif files for all the images I have referenced in the file, and I want it to continue to reference the original files, or at worst copy the images but preserve the original image format.

Any ideas, If it is possible to do this in extendscript that would be great, but I cant even figure out how to do this in the program.

Alternatively, is it possible to extract the image from the mif files that are generated.

thanks

Ethan