MarkLogic: XQuery - Creating XML Elements and Attributes programmatically

In the past, I've written XQuery modules which populate a particular sequence of elements in order (adding in the relevant values and returning the result). I had a brief discussion with Philip Fennell today who informed me of a useful aspect of XQuery: Element and Attribute constructors.

Below is an example of how they can be used with MarkLogic - hopefully useful if you want to generate sequences from the raw components: name and value pairs: