diff --git a/src/core/js/webcaosdb.js b/src/core/js/webcaosdb.js
index 041a184fd08285119d17f48c5e62c662018f559f..8ac786b65aff09e50afe1580d2df3c8a109efbc8 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');
@@ -637,7 +636,6 @@ 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 43a7e9a45c930e639b551b3d8a8db6952ee82b81..f6a3ce4fb0513afe6b4555b64f66cf3a4b152bae 100644
--- a/src/core/xsl/main.xsl
+++ b/src/core/xsl/main.xsl
@@ -313,7 +313,6 @@
   </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"/>