Generating Text with xsl:text

You can create text nodes with the <xsl:text> element, allowing you to do things such as replace whole elements with text on the fly. One reason you can use <xsl:text> is to preserve whitespace, as in this example from earlier in the chapter, where I used <xsl:text> to insert spaces:to use <xsl:text> is when you want characters such as < and & to appear in your output document, not &lt; and &amp;. To do that, you set the <xsl:text> element's disable-output-escaping 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

    <xsl:template match="/PLANETS">
        <HTML>
            <HEAD>
                <TITLE>
                    The Planets Table
                </TITLE>
            </HEAD>
            <BODY>
                <H1>
                    The Planets Table
                </H1>
                <TABLE>
                    <TD>Name</TD>
                    <TD>Mass</TD>
                    <TD>Radius</TD>
                    <TD>Day</TD>
                    <xsl:apply-templates/>
                </TABLE>
            </BODY>
        </HTML>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="PLANET">
       <TR>
        <TD><xsl:value-of select="NAME"/></TD>
        <TD><xsl:apply-templates select="MASS"/></TD>
        <TD><xsl:apply-templates select="RADIUS"/></TD>
      </TR>
   </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="MASS">
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="@UNITS"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="RADIUS">
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="@UNITS"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="DAY">
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="@UNITS"/>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Another reason attribute to "yes":

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="PLANETS">
    <HTML>
        <HEAD>
            <TITLE>
                Planets
            </TITLE>
        </HEAD>
        <BODY>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="PLANET"/>
        </BODY>
    </HTML>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="PLANET">
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping = "yes">
        &lt;PLANET&gt;
    </xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Here is the result:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
                Planets
            </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
      <PLANET>

      <PLANET>

      <PLANET>
  </BODY>
</HTML>

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