scheduleREc is a LINQ object, and the field SchedXML is of type System.Xml.Linq.XElement.
strXml is simple a C# string that contains my xml.

<code>
            // These two lines of code took a few hours to figure  out! 
            // How to convert string to XElement
            StringReader stringRdr = new StringReader(strXml);
            scheduleRec.SchedXML = XElement.Load(stringRdr);
</code>