This is a bit of a funny one... 
I have, for example, the following XML (muchos simplified) 

<nodes> 
	<node> 
		&lt;childnode&gt;value&lt;/childnode&gt; 
	</node> 
</nodes> 

This is a little unfortunate but unavoidable as the data is a string and the
xml object builder can't tell the difference between a normal string and one
that should be real XML. Only the XSLT knows this (long story). 

What I need to do is parse this in XSLT as normal and access the XML and
it's values, children, attributes etc stored in the string. For example the
Xpath might read "/nodes/node/childnode" I've tried putting it in variables
with and without output-escaping disabled and so on without success:

XSLT 

<xsl:variable name="myStringXML"> 
	<xsl:value-of select="/nodes/node"/> 
</xsl:variable> 

<xsl:for-each select="$myStringXML/childnode"> <!-- Errors here - says
$myStringXML does not evaluate to a node set -->
	<xsl:value-of select="."/> 
</xsl:for-each> 

Anybody know of a way to do this? Even thought the <xsl:value-of
select="/nodes/node"/> returns the value without the &lt;s etc it's still a
string. What I need is somekind of xml() function that turns a string into a
real nodeset. 

We're using MSXML3. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Josh

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