HTML in xsl:variable

I'm looking for a way to often used html code
fragments in xsl variables.  if i use the html code as
text i must escape the brackets -- which I can't seem
to get back, upon transformation (using
disable-output-escaping="no" doesn't change the
reference back to the entitiy,  more over it escapes
other chars like double quotes).

I tried making it a node and callint the variable
"string($var)" to no avail.

I am now just using named templates to contain html
fragments, but i would like to know if there is a way
using xsl:variable



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Richard von Keyserling
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