Weirdness with XSL Transform

[George Durzi]

Consider the following very simple XSL transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
&lt;George Durzi&gt;
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

In a webform, I'm using the XSLTransform to write the contents of this
transformation to the browser, but I'm also changing the content type to
text/plain.

The resulting text is:
&lt;George Durzi&gt;

I want it to be:
<George Durzi>

My XSL works fine if the content-type I'm targetting is text/html, but not
for text/plain.

And since the < and > are reserved characters, I have to use the &lt; and
&gt;

any idea how I can get this to work? Notice that I've specified my
xsl:output method to text

I'm also tried putting the < and > inside a CDATA section, but they still
get rendered as &lt; and &gt; in my resulting text file.

Thank you