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XSL: Writing <foo> (Not nested tags)

An XSL file is not well formed if it contains tags that don't nest. With <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">, it is possible to circumvent that:
The XML File: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/">

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

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
The XSL File: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<something>
   <or something="different">
   </or>
</something>
The output (whitespaces manually modified): 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>