Parse (x)HTML Content From XML (AJAX And DOM)

I have a script that reads the contents of an XML file. The contents of one of the tags of the XML file contains XHTML(made up of <p> and <a> tags). The code I have to output the content of the XML is as follows:

xmlRoot = xmlResponse.documentElement;

var wrapper = document.getElementById("myDiv");
var bodyText = xmlRoot.getElementsByTagName("bodyText");

for(var i=0; i<bodyText.length; i++)
{
var para = document.createElement("p");
var bodyContent = document.createTextNode(bodyText[i].firstChild.data);

para.appendChild(bodyContent);
wrapper.appendChild(para);
...
}

Now, when I view the page in my browser, I get paragraphs that actually display the HTML code. Is there a way to parse this HTML so that it actually appears with all the links etc, as opposed to just showing the code?