How to prevent XmlToJson response policy from removing leading zeros?

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Hello Community,

did anyone face an issue with ION APIs response policy XML2JSON where leading zeros are removed from the result?

Say the result from my 3rd-party API is 

<SalesOrder>
    <SalesOrderTransactionReference>0000000181</SalesOrderTransactionReference>
</SalesOrder>

If I run the above through the XmlToJson policy, I lose all the leading zeros:

{SalesOrder": 
  {
"SalesOrderTransactionReference": 181       
}
}

Did any one figure out how to prevent it?

Thanks,
Tomasz