If not, would anyone be interested in writing one?!
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
echo "
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform\"
version=\"1.0\">
<xsl:template match=\"/\">
<xsl:copy-of select=\"$1\"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
" > tmp.xsl
saxon $2 tmp.xsl
used as in
$ ./xpath "/*/*[2]" abc.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><start name="italic"/>
$ ./xpath "1+2" david.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>3
David
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