title: I need to convert an XML string into an XmlElement
body: <p>I'm looking for the simplest way to convert a string containing valid XML into an <code>XmlElement</code> object in C#.</p>
  
  <p>How can you turn this into an <code>XmlElement</code>?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;item&gt;&lt;name&gt;wrench&lt;/name&gt;&lt;/item&gt;
  </code></pre>