Putting encoded text into an attribute with XSLT

[Matthew Simoneau]

I'm trying to figure out how to HTML encode shift_jis text and put it into an attribute.

Starting with this XML-file with characters encoded in shift_jis

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="shift_jis"?>

<test>

<label>??</label>

</test>

and applying this stylesheet

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet>

<xsl:stylesheet

version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xslutput method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="test">

<html>

<body>

<xsl:value-of select="label"/>

</body>

</html>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

creates output that looks like this:

<html>

<body>数学</body>

</html>

Notice how the shift_jis characters have been HTML escaped (or encoded?) and display fine in the browser. So far so good. But now I want to put these escaped characters into an attribute. Here is the HTML I'd really like to make:

<html>

<body><a href="matlab:disp('数学')">foo</a></body>

</html>

Notice that the same two encoded Japanese characters are now within an attribute and surrounded by some other text. I've tried every trick I know and searched all over the Internet, but haven't been able to figure this one out.

Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks for your help!