To answer my own question after googling (yet) again... [?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?] [xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"] [xsl:output method="html" indent="no" media-type="text/html" version="4.0"/] [xsl:template match="/"] [xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">[/xsl:text] [html] [head] Use the "xsl:text" element. Sheesh.