is there a way to display strings which contain ampersand entities in
humanized / literal form?

Trying to display it with <xsl:message> gives 'Tom &amp; Jerry'
instead of 'Tom & Jerry'

The strings are displayed in a program which outputs XSLT (thus the
output mode is set to XML), it uses the <xsl:message> statement to
inform the user.  Functions like normalize-unicode(), replace() and
translate() are not suitable for this.

Regards,
Rene
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