To take advantage of XSTL 2.0 and XPath 2.0, use Saxon as the XSLT processor. Simply add it as a dependency of the plugin as follows.
<plugin>
<groupId>net.sf.xsltmp</groupId>
<artifactId>xslt-generator-maven-plugin</artifactId>
...
<executions>
...
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.saxon</groupId>
<artifactId>saxon</artifactId>
<version>8.7</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>