<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
    <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8"/>
    <xsl:template match="TEST">
        <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
            <head>
                <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
            </head>  
            <body>
              CHARACTERS IN XSLT: ééééééééééé <br/> <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
  </xsl:template>

<xsl:template >
		<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>