question about setters

[Wayne McFadden]

Hi everyone,
I'm running into a problem where I have a string represntation of an xml 
element and I validate it using the factory, then i want to set it into an item 
xml bean.  

 ProductDescriptionXML productDesc=null;
         productDesc= ProductDescriptionXML.Factory.newInstance();
         productDesc= ProductDescriptionXML.Factory.parse(productDescription);

item.setProductDescription(productDesc);

Now when I do that, I end up with two ProductDescription tags as below within 
the xml which makes entire document invalid.  is there an xmloption that I can 
set to have the item.setProductDescription(productDesc) not automatically 
create the outer <productDescription> ?
Thanks in advance.
Wayne

<productDescription>
<productDescription>
          <productId>1011</productId>
          <partNumber>itemPartnumber11</partNumber>
          <productType>ItemBean</productType>
          <languageId>-1</languageId>
          <name>item part number 1 name</name>
          <shortDescription>item part number 1 short 
Description</shortDescription>
          <longDescription>item part number 1 long Description</longDescription>
          
<thumbnailUrl>http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat/ce-comp2_sqcat._V62540442_.gif</thumbnailUrl>
          
<fullimageUrl>http://s7ondemand1.scene7.com/is/image/MoosejawMB/10032314x1014039_zm?$full150$</fullimageUrl>
          <barcode>0.0</barcode>
          
<manufacturerPartNumber>manufacturerPartNumber</manufacturerPartNumber>
          <available>true</available>
          <published>true</published>
          <taxable>true</taxable>
          <discontinued>true</discontinued>
          <isSpecialOrder>true</isSpecialOrder>
        </productDescription>
      </productDescription>