XSLT is rather verbose compared to typical sed/awk syntax. While it's not quite sed/awk (there isn't a programming language per se, just simple edit/select com

XSLT is rather verbose compared to typical sed/awk syntax. While it's not quite sed/awk (there isn't a programming language per se, just simple edit/select commands) xmlstarlet can do some of the things to an xml document that you might do to a text document with sed and uses xslt internally.