Re: using xsl:output-character to render characters in

> Yes, that works, but I thought it was deprecated. Is there no better
> way in XSLT 2?

Not really, but you should never need to do this anyway.

If you are serving the result as text/html, use the html output method
and then no quoting is necessary (or possible) in HTML script element.

If you are serving as application/xhtml+xml use the xhtml output method
and allow the system to quote using either CDATA section or & lt entity
references, and any browser that understands application/xhtml+xml 
will understand this quoting and pass the correct characters to the
javascript engine.

David