No, you are not right.

XSLT 2.0 has the function unparsed-text() for this purpose.

On 24/10/2007, Andreas Mixich <a.m.i.x@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> am I right, that XSLT is unable to take any non-XML textfile as input?
>
> The problem I am facing is, that I have to insert the contents of a
> plain text file into a node within an XHTML file for a statically built
> web-site. I found no way how to do it.
>
> --
> Greetings,
> Andreas Mixich