diff --git a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/site.jsl b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/site.jsl
index f17196bd..6172ccaf 100644
--- a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/site.jsl
+++ b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/site.jsl
@@ -381,6 +381,8 @@
     <div class="source"><pre><jsl:applyTemplates /></pre></div>
   </jsl:template>
   
+  <jsl:template match="escapeXml" trim="false"><j:set var="escapedChunk"><jsl:applyTemplates/></j:set>${escapedChunk}</jsl:template>
+  
   <!-- preserve whitespace in the following elements -->
   <jsl:template match="pre | script | style" trim="true">
     <x:set var="nodename" select="name()"/>
diff --git a/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml b/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
index cbbaf9d0..83c46f02 100644
--- a/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.9-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+      <action dev="felipel" type="add" issue="MPXDOC-118">Added new tag <code>&lt;escapeXml&gt;</code>.</action>        
       <action dev="epugh" type="add" issue="MPXDOC-124" due-to="Shinobu Kawai">Maven xdoc plugin clean up generated velocity log as part of calling clean.</action>        
       <action dev="aheritier" type="add" issue="MPXDOC-123">New property (maven.xdoc.xml.copy) to copy only and not transform some xml files provided in the ${maven.docs.src} directory.</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="update">Make compatible with Maven 1.1</action>
diff --git a/xdoc/xdocs/escapeXml.xml b/xdoc/xdocs/escapeXml.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0cec33da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xdoc/xdocs/escapeXml.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<!--
+ * ========================================================================
+ * 
+ * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ * 
+ * ========================================================================
+-->
+
+<example name="escapeXml">
+   <text>This is an example of the escapeXml tag usage.</text>
+<!-- note that comments are ignored -->
+</example>
diff --git a/xdoc/xdocs/index.xml b/xdoc/xdocs/index.xml
index c660b6b6..77c467a2 100644
--- a/xdoc/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/xdoc/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE document [
+    <!ENTITY escapeXmlExample SYSTEM "file:xdocs/escapeXml.xml">
+]>
 <!-- 
 /*
  * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
@@ -79,6 +82,28 @@
         <code>@import</code>.  This allows you to easily add and modify 
         the styles that are provided by Maven.
       </p>
+      <p>
+        If you need to include the contents of another XML document in your document, you can use the 
+       <code>&lt;escapeXml&gt;</code> tag, as demonstrated below. For instance, the code:
+      </p>
+      <source>
+<![CDATA[
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE document [
+    <!ENTITY escapeXmlExample SYSTEM "file:xdocs/escapeXml.xml">
+]>
+<escapeXml>&escapeXmlExample;</escapeXml>
+]]>
+      </source>      
+      <p> 
+        Would produce the following output (click <a href="escapeXml.html">here</a> to see the content of <code>escapeXml.xml</code>):
+      </p>
+      <source>
+
+<escapeXml>&escapeXmlExample;</escapeXml>
+      </source>      
+        
+
     </section>
  </body>
 </document>
