Issued a Pull Request to update README to include examples so online documentation provides further clarity without browsing Github directly. Current README omits examples found in xtend_examples.md
Yep, at some time in March, David decided to remove the text examples as he saw little value in them.
I seem to remember that there was some discussion that the doc building process should automatically create something from the thing definition files but I lost track whether someone worked on that.
By the way, could you link the PR to your posting so it will be easier to see which one you are writing about?
I was just wondering why there are no examples in the documentation. 
Looks like the PR was closed.
I added a comment why I fully support @Gordon_Geist’s PR.