Creating a sequence of elements using Xpath 2.0 (as opposed to using XSLT)

I'd like to create a sequence of elements in xpath 2.0

You can do something like:

('a','b','c') 

to create a sequence of strings.

I want to do something like:

(<a>1</a>,<a>2</a>,<a>3</a>)

to create a sequence of elements.

I开发者_如何学Cs this possible? Yes, I know how to do it using XSLT.

Thanks in advance.

In xpath 3.0 you can use xml-parse() function as in:

parse-xml("<a>1</a>,<a>2</a>,<a>3</a>")