Stuck parsing xml data SQL2005

TinCool

Hey guys.

I have the below xml:

DECLARE	@xml	AS XML
SET	@xml = CAST(CAST('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<error application="ABCD" host="ABCD">
	<additionalInfo>
		<item name="1"><value string="A" /></item>
		<item name="2"><value string="B" /></item>
		<item name="3"><value string="C" /></item>
		<item name="4"><value string="D" /></item>
	</additionalInfo>
</error>' AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) AS XML)

SELECT 
		[name] = itemname.value('(@name)', 'VARCHAR(250)')
,		[string] = itemvalue.value('(@string)','VARCHAR(250)')
FROM	
		@xml.nodes('//error/additionalInfo/item') AS T1(itemname)
CROSS APPLY
		@xml.nodes('//error/additionalInfo/item/value') AS T2(itemvalue)

I want to write a query that returns the below:

name	string
1	A
2	B
3	C
4	D

I can get the data out but the results I'm getting is one entry for each combination of name and string. Is there any way I can join the item and value elements together in one simple select query ?

To answer some questions I may get.

1. I cannot change the structure of the source xml as this is what I am working with.
2. I would rather not have to go down the road of creating temporary tables and IDENTITY columns, doing two selects and joining the two together
3. I am aware I am double CASTING but that is due to the source xml data being utf-16, but it makes no difference to the structure of what I need to do.

Cheers,
TC