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<h1>xsl:text</h1>
<p>The <code>xsl:text</code> element causes its content to be output.</p>
<p>The main reason for enclosing text within an <code>xsl:text</code> element is
to allow white space to be output.
White space nodes in the stylesheet are ignored unless they appear immediately within
an <code>xsl:text</code> element.</p>
<p>The optional <code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute may be set to "yes" or "no"; the default is
"no". If set to "yes", special characters such as "<" and "&" will be output as themselves,
not as entities. Be aware that in general this can produce non-well-formed XML or HTML. It is useful,
however, when generating things such as ASP or JSP pages. Escaping may not be disabled when writing
to a result tree fragment.</p>
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