XPath beyond 1.0 can do the same things, that XPath 1.0 could do. You still can do your nifty one-liners. But it can do so much more now! Especially since it is

XPath beyond 1.0 can do the same things, that XPath 1.0 could do. You still can do your nifty one-liners. But it can do so much more now! Especially since it is a subset of XQuery now, and that's where things become very interesting.