OT: How to get xml-entities into Javascript strings?

[Koen Pellegrims]

Hi,

(Not specifically cocoon-related, flame me if you want to...)

I ran into some trouble trying to generate a snippet of JavaScript from an
XML-file, containing entity-references.
The problem can be reduced to this:

XML-file:
<product name="industri&#235;le merkers"/>
&#235; is &euml; in HTML, or ë... if you can see this ;-)

XSL:
<xsl:template match="product">
        <script type="text/javascript">
                alert('<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>');
        </script>
</xsl:template>

I'm not that strong in JavaScript, but I know JS expects Unicode-type
encodings of the form \Uxxxx.
Is there a standard way to convert XML entities into JavaScript entities or
is there a cunningly simple solution to this problem?

Koen



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