"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@n...> wrote in message 
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> "tshad" <tshad@d...> wrote in message 
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>> I am using Visual Studio 2005 and ends-with doesn't work there.
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>> I am trying:
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>>    not((starts-with(name(), 'GC') or (starts-with(name(), 'CC')) and 
>> ends-with(name(),'-POUND-') and
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>> and I get an error:
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>> ends-with() is an unknown XSLT function.
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>> But when I look it up, it is there in various places, such as:
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>> http://www.w3schools.com/Xpath/xpath_functions.asp#string
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>> Does 2005 use a different version of XSLT?
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>> Thanks,
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>> Tom
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> 'ends-with' is XPath 2.0, therefore, for all practical purposes, you need 
> an XSLT 2.0 processor. None of Microsoft's products support version 2.0.

Are they planning to?

Thanks,

Tom

> You can either re-write your XSLT of use Saxon which has a free .NET 
> version. You won't ,however, be able to debug in Visual Studio, you'll 
> need to use something like Altova XMLSpy">XMLSpy.
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> -- 
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> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
> http://joe.fawcett.name