Extracting XHTML Fragments

[Joseph M. F. <jos...@co...>]

Hello all.

I have, what I hope to be, a simple question.

What I am doing is extracting XHTML fragments from an XML document.  For (a very quick) example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<content_dictionary>
	<content_item>This is a <b>content</b> test <hr/></content_item>
</content_dictionary>

If I evaluate the XPath expression of "//content_dictionary/content_item", I recieve the following with an exportAsXML():

<content_item>This is a <b>content</b> test <hr/></content_item>

Is there any way that I can obtain the following without having to manually remove the <content_item/>?

This is a <b>content</b> test <hr/>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

--Joseph