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Using HTML entity codes within XSL?

2002-12-18 10:52:21
Hi,
        I'm trying to do something like the following in XSL:

<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
        &pound;<xsl:value-of select="data/premiumAmount" />
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

I'd like to output HTML character entities to a browser, so that the browser
will render the correct character internally, independent of the user's
set-up, rather than having to use something like a pound symbol "£"
for the Latin-1 character set - but I obviously get an error if I try to
use "&pound;" within the XSL ("Reference
to undefined entity 'pound'.").  The solution at
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/characters.html
says to specify the character set, but this would defeat the purpose, and
also systems aren't required to understand any encodings other than UTF-8
and UTF-16.  Is
there a way I can, in some form, use something like "&pound;" or another
character reference (such as "&eacute;") in my XSL
without specifying a specific character set/number to use?  Also, I've
noticed I can already use certain codes such as "&amp;" and "&gt;" - is
there a list of defined codes which can be used in XSL?

Thanks,
Rich





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