Comment by faassen

The specifications are certainly not easy to read, and I wouldn't recommend them to learn about XML. But from the perspective of someone implementing them they are quite useful!

As someone who has used many programming languages and who went through the process of implementing this one I have many opinions about XPath and XSLT as programming languages. I myself am more interested in implementing them for others who value using them than using them myself. I do recognize there is a sizeable community of people who do use these tools and are passionate about them - and that's interesting to see and more power to them!