non-textual types

is there an xml parser out there that knows to how to read the type of an xml
element (as described in the XML data spec.)
and use that type and not the string.
what i want is that if the following exists in an XML document
<size dt:dt="int">14</size>
in the DOM tree i want have "14" as text but as in integer.

thanks a lot.

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