first question to the list: contains

Hi folks, I'm pretty new to XSL, at least to using it seriously for
projects, and I've hit a snag that I can't seem to figure out. It's
probably pretty simple, but I'm not 100% clear on how escaping works in
XSL.

Basically we've got some decimal unicode Japanese characters in our XML
file, e.g. え.  I need to test for these inside of an element so I
can add a CLASS attribute to the DIV that will contain them. I'm
confident there are no other unicode elements in the document, and so I
tried to do something as simple as this:

<xsl:variable name="jpstr">
	<xsl:text>&amp;&#35;</xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>

<div>
<xsl:if test="contains(wording,$jpstr)">
	<xsl:attribute name="class">
		<xsl:text>fs front jpns</xsl:text>
	</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
...etc

If I change $jpstr's value to normal letters it works just fine, but
for some reason I can't get it to detect  either &# or &amp;&#35;.  Any
help is greatly appreciated.

Jared Stein

   Director of Instructional Design Services
   Utah Valley State College, MS 149
 
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