[rudycelekli]

ends-with("Everyday Italian", //book[1]/title) compiles but panics during evaluation because only the first argument accepts a node-set. The equivalent call with string(//book[1]/title) works. This prevents XML/HTML queries from comparing a string against a suffix stored in another node.

Apply the same existing string/node-set conversion to both arguments. A selected node contributes its string value and an empty node-set contributes the empty string. Numeric and boolean arguments retain their existing rejection behavior.

Validation on upstream base 6a83bdc6e20f75669fea1f29402e1f2ea8676111:

• All six new regression cases panic on the unmodified base, covering matching/nonmatching suffixes, both arguments from nodes, and empty suffix selections.
• go test ./... and go test -race ./... pass after the fix with Go 1.26.4 on macOS arm64, including the existing tests that reject numeric arguments.
• git diff --check passes.

The expected suffix results follow the ends-with rules and the package's existing first-argument node-set conversion. This does not add collations or general XPath 2.0 support.

AI assistance: implementation and regression tests prepared with Codex.

[coveralls]

coverage: 85.691% (-0.02%) from 85.71% — rudycelekli:fix/ends-with-node-suffix-20261029 into antchfx:master