> Saxon 8.0 from Saxonica
      ^^^^^

That's a very old release that implemented a __working draft__ of XSLt2.
the feature of being aboe to use a string as the last step in a path was
added towards the end of the XPath2 specifcation process.

You need a newer saxon.


David

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