Tree - list - tree

I would then like to modify the items in the list, and map the individual items into a new tree which has the same topology as the original tree. Each modified item should take the same place as it had in the original tree.

I'm doing this as I have a lot of legacy compoenents which work on lists rather than trees, but I would like to update them to retain tree information.

Here's what I've got so far, but this only takes into account branches and does not retain path information.

GH_Structure/font>IGH_Goo> ListToTree(List/font>IGH_Goo> items, GH_Structure/font>IGH_Goo> tree)

{

GH_Structure/font>IGH_Goo> tree_fromlist = new Grasshopper.Kernel.Data.GH_Structure/font>IGH_Goo>();

int iItem = 0;

int iBranch = 0;

foreach (List/font>IGH_Goo> branch in tree.Branches)

{

List/font>IGH_Goo> objs = new List/font>IGH_Goo>();

foreach (IGH_Goo obj in branch)

{

objs.Add(items[iItem]);

iItem++;

}

GH_Path p = new Grasshopper.Kernel.Data.GH_Path(iBranch);

tree_fromlist.AppendRange(objs, p);

iBranch++;

}

return tree_fromlist;

}

Before I get stuck in trying to get it to work with paths (which I fear might be a touch more complicated,), I thought I'd ask if there's a much more obvious way of doing this. Any ideas?  Is there a way to access the objects of individual paths? Thanks!