>There are plenty of areas in these specs that would really benefit from
>detailed review and feedback, but saying "I think I could design a
>better language" is not helpful at this stage.

Unless of course you do design a better language. I think RELAX NG
and JDOM are proofs by example that when a W3C spec goes off the
rails others can and will create better replacements.  I suspect this
will happen with XSLT 2 as well as the implementers of XSLT 1 who've
given up in disgust on XSLT 2 and XPath 2 begin to look for something
interesting to do.