Create XML Nodes based on XPath?

Question

Does anyone know of an existing means of creating an XML hierarchy programatically from an XPath expression?

For example if I have an XML fragment such as:

Answer 1

If the XPath string is processed from back to front, its easier to process non rooted XPaths eg. //a/b/c... It should support Gordon's XPath syntax too although I have not tried...

static private XmlNode makeXPath(XmlDocument doc, string xpath)
{
    string[] partsOfXPath = xpath.Split('/');
    XmlNode node = null;
    for (int xpathPos = partsOfXPath.Length; xpathPos > 0; xpathPos--)
    {
        string subXpath = string.Join("/", partsOfXPath, 0, xpathPos);
        node = doc.SelectSingleNode(subXpath);
        if (node != null)
        {
            // append new descendants
            for (int newXpathPos = xpathPos; newXpathPos < partsOfXPath.Length; newXpathPos++)
            {
                node = node.AppendChild(doc.CreateElement(partsOfXPath[newXpathPos]));
            }
            break;
        }
    }

    return node;
}