In 3.0, apart from xsl:iterate as suggested by John Lumley, you could consider
using a fold:
<xsl:function name="f:wrap" as="element(*)">
<xsl:param name="e" as="element(*)"/>
<xsl:param name="n" as="xs:string"/>
<xsl:element name="{$n}"><xsl:copy-of select="$e"/></xsl:element>
</xsl:function>
then
fold-left(reverse(tokenize($path, '/')), $stuff-from-somewhere-else, f:wrap#2)
Michael Kay
Saxonica
On 5 Nov 2016, at 16:19, Eliot Kimber ekimber(_at_)contrext(_dot_)com
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Say I have this string: "foo/bar" (or any arbitrarily-long sequence of
/-delimited tag names) and want to construct from it:
<foo>
<bar>
<!-- Stuff added here that I get from somewhere else -->
</bar>
</foo>
Is there an easier or more obvious way to generate this than an recursive
function?
With a recursive function I can easily create child elements until the
sequence is exhausted but it feels like there should be an easier way
using XSLT 2 but if there is I'm not thinking of it.
Cheers,
Eliot
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Eliot Kimber
http://contrext.com
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