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diff --git a/libbe/comment.py b/libbe/comment.py
index 1adb6f4..e3dfea0 100644
--- a/libbe/comment.py
+++ b/libbe/comment.py
@@ -373,7 +373,10 @@ class Comment(Tree, settings_object.SavedSettingsObject):
"""
if type(xml_string) == types.UnicodeType:
xml_string = xml_string.strip().encode('unicode_escape')
- comment = ElementTree.XML(xml_string)
+ if hasattr(xml_string, 'getchildren'): # already an ElementTree Element
+ comment = xml_string
+ else:
+ comment = ElementTree.XML(xml_string)
if comment.tag != 'comment':
raise utility.InvalidXML( \
'comment', comment, 'root element must be <comment>')