diff --git a/src/core/js/webcaosdb.js b/src/core/js/webcaosdb.js
index 7a3637ed944548e8185c7dd2ae8a32eadee50a09..89a729da6441900124fd8e04261a7f0c8d8d9a78 100644
--- a/src/core/js/webcaosdb.js
+++ b/src/core/js/webcaosdb.js
@@ -601,7 +601,6 @@ this.transformation = new function () {
         var xsl = await transformation.retrieveXsltScript("property.xsl");
         insertParam(xsl, "filesystempath", connection.getBasePath() + "FileSystem/");
         insertParam(xsl, "entitypath", connection.getBasePath() + "Entity/");
-        insertParam(xsl, "close-char", '×');
         var entityXsl = await transformation.retrieveXsltScript('entity.xsl');
         var messageXsl = await transformation.retrieveXsltScript('messages.xsl');
         var commonXsl = await transformation.retrieveXsltScript('common.xsl');
@@ -628,7 +627,6 @@ this.transformation = new function () {
         var xslt = transformation.mergeXsltScripts(entityXsl, [errorXsl, commonXsl]);
         insertParam(xslt, "filesystempath", connection.getBasePath() + "FileSystem/");
         insertParam(xslt, "entitypath", connection.getBasePath() + "Entity/");
-        insertParam(xslt, "close-char", '×');
         xslt = injectTemplate(xslt, _root);
         return xslt;
     }
diff --git a/src/core/xsl/main.xsl b/src/core/xsl/main.xsl
index 8dcaaa0157cd1730c4e14517bcde8f5c44c2a38a..205cc1dbc8ab7decfecca3f9690196bac09e8dbb 100644
--- a/src/core/xsl/main.xsl
+++ b/src/core/xsl/main.xsl
@@ -134,7 +134,6 @@
   </xsl:template>
   <xsl:template match="*" mode="entities"/>
   <xsl:template match="*" mode="top-level-data"/>
-  <xsl:variable name="close-char" select="'×'"/>
   <!-- assure that this uri ends with a '/' -->
   <xsl:template name="uri_ends_with_slash">
     <xsl:param name="uri"/>