Database Software

I have case of external web service providing response which is XML, but contains encoded XML within.

I wish to use XMLTable to extract results. I am familiar with XMLTable, but cannot get to work with mixed encoded/unencoded XML. This returns no data.  If all unencoded, then returns data as required. I assume I need to convert somehow, but not sure how to achieve this.

Code snippet shown below

declare
vResponse XMLType;
begin
vResponse:= XMLTYPE(
'<ValAddrResult>
<Addresses>
<item><Address>&lt;AddressLine1&gt;3 Smith Ct&lt;/AddressLine1&gt;</Address></item>
<item><Address>&lt;AddressLine1&gt;4 Smith Ct&lt;/AddressLine1&gt;</Address></item>
</Addresses>
</ValAddrResult>');

  for c1 in
  (SELECT x.*
    FROM XMLTABLE ('/ValAddrResult/Addresses/item/Address'
                  passing vResponse
                  COLUMNS AddressLine1 VARCHAR2(500) PATH 'AddressLine1') x)
  loop
    dbms_output.put_line(c1.AddressLine1);
  end loop;
end;

Thanks