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String Functions are Greatly Enhanced

(A small sampling)

upper-case() Translates each character to upper-case (or returns it unchanged if there is no equivalent)
lower-case() Translates each character to lower-case (or returns it unchanged if there is no equivalent)
compare() Returns which string (of two strings given) appears first in a given collation
ends-with() Like starts-with() (still in XPath 2.0) except inspecting the end of a string
string-join() Concatenates all the strings given in a sequence, using an optional separator between adjacent strings