How Do I Return All Product Data Fields in a Filtered Search Result?

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I am trying to display product descriptions in my search results. I can't seem to do that using the modified XML Package for all search-related functionality that CA has provided in their stock Premium Webstores installations (page.casearch.xml.config). The result set returned from the web query used in the "page.casearch.xml.config" XML Package only returns the following fields per product:

<Product>   <ProductID>8458</ProductID>   <Name>MMF Cloth Currency Bag</Name>   <VariantID>8458</VariantID>   <Price>3.13</Price>   <MSRP>3.1300</MSRP>   <SalePrice>0</SalePrice>   <VariantHighPrice>3.13</VariantHighPrice>   <VariantLowPrice>3.13</VariantLowPrice>   <Inventory>0</Inventory>   <Score>1</Score>   <ProductSKU>MMF2310319W06</ProductSKU>   <ProductExtensionData2 />   <ProductExtensionData3 />   <ProductExtensionData4 />   <ProductExtensionData5 />   <AvailableStartDate>2012-04-29T02:34:19</AvailableStartDate>   <FreeShipping>0</FreeShipping>   <CategoryIDs>524,711,712</CategoryIDs>   <SectionIDs>2641,3171</SectionIDs>   <ManufacturerIDs>192</ManufacturerIDs> </Product>

Obviously I can't display the product description because it is not returned in the result set. I am reluctant to replace this web query with a SQL query of my own simply to get one more field. Is there a different form of this web query available that will return all product fields? If not, is there a way I can retrieve the description data for each product, possibly in a for-each loop, after the web query is run? Should I look at using "QueryAfter" in conjunction with my own query to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance.

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