Oracle 11g: XQuery results concatenated in a single SQLXML type

When I run an XQuery query in PL-SQL using

 SELECT XQUERY('...' RETURNING CONTENT) FROM DUAL
 

the result is always returned concatenated in a single row single column holding a SQLXML field.

This is bad for queries returning sequences of elements and really nasty for queries returning sequences of text nodes.

Is there a way to avoid this concatenation and get a row per returned item?

Thanks,

Eric

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