Shameless plug: The xmlstarlet utility allows creating implicit XSLT from command line args, so it would also be one line of shell. This way the XSLT verbosity

Shameless plug: The xmlstarlet utility allows creating implicit XSLT from command line args, so it would also be one line of shell. This way the XSLT verbosity is also gone: xsl:value-of becomes -v for example.