Insert xquery node from external xs: string variable (basex)

Question

I am trying to insert new elements into an XML document using BaseX.

declare variable $part external; 
insert nodes $part as first into db:open("PARTDB")/assembly[@name="ZB09010"]

I use the BaseX GUI for my testing and have defined the $ part variable (by clicking the $ icon).

If I use a "local" variable using, for example,

let $up := <Employee Name="Joe">
    <Personal>
      <SSN>666-66-1234</SSN>
    </Personal>
    <StaffInfo>
      <Position>Doctor</Position>
      <AccountableTo>Jeff</AccountableTo>
    </StaffInfo>
  </Employee>
  return
insert node $up as last into doc('office')/Staff

then the insertion works correctly, however, with an external variable, every character that is a reserved xml character is converted to a sequence of xml escape characters, for example. example: <becomes <

I managed to get it to work by wrapping the variable with the xquery: eval ($ part) function, but that seems hacked to me.

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Answer 1

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