This is an outdated article. Many of the things it claims you cannot do, you can in fact do, you just weren't able to when this was penned. For example: http:

This is an outdated article. Many of the things it claims you cannot do, you can in fact do, you just weren't able to when this was penned. For example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31437121/how-to-output-ampersand-from-xslt http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31437121/how-to-output-am... Just setting <xsl:output method="text"/> will let you more or less output whatever you want. It doesn't care at that point if the output is valid XML. It is used regularly to convert XML to other text formats using only XSLT.