Add iteration through a list when producing nodes

It should be possible to simple iterate throught a list of nodes to generate new nodes.

A Use Case would be:
1. A list of nodes must be companied by a list of similar nodes
2. Delete all child nodes before a parent is removed.

A solution would be:
1. define a workflow with PHP action
2. use a view as the source list ... call the view from within code with type 'items'
3. produce for each source list node a new node

According to views export and michell @ irc the type could items in:

 // Set up some variables that won't change.
  $base_vars = array(
    'view' => $view,
    'view_type' => $type,
  );

But I still don't know how to call the view! Probably with a call to

function phptemplate_views_view_list_filmstrip($view, $nodes, $type) {