Yet Another Entity Ref question!

Hi,
I'd like to produce an entity reference, say "©", from XML to HTML
through XSLT; here below I have summarized the problem with an example:

XML
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<doc>
  <label>Foobar<entity>copy</entity></label>
</doc>

XSL:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
    version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="html" media-type="text/html" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>

<xsl:template match="doc">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="label" /> <!-- ok! -->
   <xsl:variable name="label">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="label" />
   </xsl:variable>
   <xsl:value-of select="$label" />  <!-- not ok -->
   <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$label" />  <!-- ok
-->
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="entity">
   <xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[&]]></xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="." /><xsl:text>;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

So, if I use $label I have to disable escaping to get what I want.
I try to look for this problem on FAQ but I didn't find any interesting
solution.
Has anyone a better solution?
Thanks in advance!

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Marco Guazzone
Software Engineer
Kerbero S.r.L. - Gruppo TC
Viale Forlanini, 36
Garbagnate M.se (MI)
20024 - Italy
mail: marco.guazzone@xxxxxxxxxxx
www: http://www.kerbero.com
Tel. +39 02 99514.247
Fax. +39 02 99514.399
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