Convert string/varchar2 to xmltype?

Hi,
Is there any way to convert a string to xmltype? Perhaps something like a to_xmltype() that would implicitly parse the string as an xml document or fragment.
Thanks,
Matt

I discovered this in the past day too! :-)
So what I'm actually using looks like
select xmltype('<div>' || myfield || '</div>')
And it works very well.
The only hassle is that this data originates in an oracle 8i database, so xmltype isn't available. For testing this out, I have a private database link from a 9i database to this source database. And all this works properly! :-) Data from an 8i db taking advantage of 9i features.
Not sure if I can deploy this as a real solution though.

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