data vs. xml

eg.
<node>
<dataNotNewXMLTag1, dataVala, dataValb, moreData, ...>
<dataNotNewXMLTag2, dataVala, dataValb, moreData, ...>
<dataNotNewXMLTag3, dataVala, dataValb, moreData, ...>
<dataNotNewXMLTag4, dataVala, dataValb, moreData, ...>
<dataNotNewXMLTag5, dataVala, dataValb, moreData, ...>
</node>

eg.
<node>
&lt;dataNotNewXMLTag1, dataVala, dataValb, moreData, ...&gt;
&lt;dataNotNewXMLTag2, dataVala, dataValb, moreData, ...&gt;
&lt;dataNotNewXMLTag3, dataVala, dataValb, moreData, ...&gt;
&lt;dataNotNewXMLTag4, dataVala, dataValb, moreData, ...&gt;
&lt;dataNotNewXMLTag5, dataVala, dataValb, moreData, ...&gt;
</node>

I had tried something like this:
<x:template match="node">
 <x:element name="node">
    <x:variable
        name="start"
        select="translate(exslt:node-set(.),"<","&lt;")">
    <x:variable
        name="end"
        select="translate(exslt:node-set($start),"<","&lt;")">
    <x:copy-of select="exslt:node-set($end)"/>
 </x:element>
</x:template>

Thanks,
bix