>
> With XPath 2.0, what is the easiest way to split a string
> into a sequence of strings of length one e.g.
>    "Kibology" into ("K", "i", "b", "o", "l", "o", "g", "y") I
> came up with e.g.
>     for $index in 1 to string-length("Kibology")
>     return substring("Kibology", $index, 1) but wonder
> whether there is a shorter/easier way.
>

It's not especially pretty, but I would tend to do

for $i in string-to-codepoints($in) return codepoints-to-string($i)

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Dimitre Novatchev
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