gistfile1.xsl

<func:function name="child-node">
<xsl:param name="elements"/>
    <xsl:variable name="nodes">
        <xsl:element name="{name()}">
            <xsl:for-each select="str:tokenize($elements, ',| ')">
                <xsl:element name="{normalize-space(.)}"/>
            </xsl:for-each>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:variable>
    <func:result select="exsl:node-set($nodes)/*/*"/>
</func:function>