Read xml from SQL Server

Hello
I need to read a xml from a sql server 2000 database. The field in the database is declare as text.
When a try to read <a>3</a> the database adapter returns something like this.
/a/3//a/.
How do I solve the problem?
Thanks
Gonçalo Ribeiro

Hello again.
I'm using ora:parseEscapedXML to convert the string that contains XML into XML.
I'm doing it in an assign. My doubt is what kind of variable should received the information?
Thanks
Gonçalo Ribeiro

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