[basex-talk] replacing elements with their children using update

Hello!

So I can use

copy $c := $test modify (for $each in $c/descendant::html:ins return replace node $each with $each/node()) return $c

to unwrap all the html ins elements in some test HTML.

If I try to do this using update (because I am under the perhaps mistaken impression that update can do the same things copy/modify/return can)

$test update {replace node descendant::html:ins with 'CABBAGE'}

works fine; the various ins elements are found and replaced. But if I want to replace that particular ins element with its children, there doesn't seem to be a way to specify the children; the context item is the value of $test, not whatever descendant ins element is being replaced.

How could this be written using update? Can this be written using update?

thanks!

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