Translating "("

Hi,

Sorry fort his "easy" question, but searching the archives I couldn't
find a solution myself.

I need translate special characters like "(", ")" etc in <ln:term>.

<xsl:variable name="val" select="translate(normalize-space(ln:term),
'&#39;&#160;/&#40;&#41;,&#34;""', '_')" />

Unfortunately Saxon throws an exception at this line, because of
resolving the character entities...
I tired to escape them via "\", but no success.

Can someone point me to the right direction, please?
Thank you very much.

wbr,
Roman


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