> If you know the disadvantages of disable-output-escaping, use 
> <xsl:text 
> disable-output-escaping="yes"/> like on <xsl:value-of/>.

I guess I wasn't clear.  This does not work:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><xsl:value-of
select="xpath"/></xsl:text>

If you try to do that, the transformation fails saying you can't embed
<xsl:value-of/> inside of an <xsl:text> element.

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