Avoid xml escaping of angle brackets, when passing xml string to System.Xml.Linq.XElement

I'm getting a string from string GetXmlString(); this I cant change.

I have to append this to an xml within a new XElement ("parent" , ... ); , to the ... area.

This string I'm getting is of the following format. 

<tag name="" value =""></tag>
<tag name="" value =""></tag>
<tag name="" value =""></tag>
...

The final result I want is this to be like 

<parent>
<tag name="" value =""></tag>
<tag name="" value =""></tag>
<tag name="" value =""></tag>
<tag name="" value =""></tag>
<tag name="" value =""></tag>
...
</parent>

when I just pass the string as XElement("root", GetXmlString()) < and > are encoded to &lt; and &gt

When I try XElement.Parse(GetXmlString()) or XDocument.Parse(GetXmlString()) I get the There are multiple root elements exception.

How do I get the required output without escaping the brackets? What am I missing?

Jon Skeet
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The simplest option is probably to give it a root element, then parse it as XML:

var doc = XDocument.Parse("<parent>" + text + "</parent>");

If you need to append to an existing element, you can use:

var elements = XElement.Parse("<parent>" + text + "</parent>").Elements();
existingElement.Add(elements);

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