how to use the angular compiler to compile a template outside of an angular app

compile.js

var app = angular.bootstrap(document.createElement("div"), ["my-module", "ng"])
var $compile = app.get("$compile")
var compiled = $compile(myTmplString);
/*
compiled is a function, publicLinkFn, that is 2 steps away from seeing how any nodes look
nodes are accessed in a childNodes list, that can only be accessed by the compositeLinkFn
there's no access to a tree of the parsed template on the publicLinkFn
*/