<my:alphabet xmlns:my="my.com">
  <l>a</l>
  <l>b</l>
  <l>c</l>
  <l>d</l>
  <!-- etc. -->
</my>

Cheers,
Wendell

I'd just iterate over the alphabet held in a string, with a recursive
template. It starts off with the whole alphabet and gradually whittles
it down letter by letter until there's no alphabet left

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