"xmlsh" is derived from the design and goals the unix shell and core commands but with XML expressions and documents added as core features to the shell. xmlsh can be used as a drop-in replacement for scripting xml transformations instead of sh.
...Water is an all-purpose language (and meta-language) that runs Web applications in the browser or server-side. Water is compatible with .NET, Java, and C on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X system.
Emma (Extensible Multi Media Architecture) is an open-source, modular, extensible, dynamic framework for declarative authoring and display of 2D and 3D interactive multimedia. It uses Lua for scripting and Ogre3D for rendering. http://www.emma3d.org