This function tokenize a string and returns each token in an xml element

tokenizeToElements.xq

xquery version "1.0";
(:~
 : This function tokenize a string and returns each text item in a <text/> element
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let $string := "test,test,test,test,test"
return
  for $text in tokenize($string,',')
  return
    <text>{concat('add some text: ', $text)}</text>