[flexcoders] converting xml string containing special characters back to regular xml

[djohnson29]

I have an xml variable that I need to store in my database as a
string.  So I've called .toXMLString() on the variable to turn it into
a string and it's saved in the db. 

Now when it comes to loading that stored value back into a string
variable , when I see the string representation of the xml it contains
 symbols instead of the angle brackets like so:

    <MyNode>
</MyNode>
  

How do I convert this back to XML?

I would like to so something like this:

var x:XML = new XML(myStringXML);

but this does not correctly format the xml or convert the angled brackets.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks!