diff --git a/product/PortalTransforms/transforms/__init__.py b/product/PortalTransforms/transforms/__init__.py
index 0ffd5e7fa862930dbd09794629540b888006fef6..61e869952025559c4fceb73cdf1b0895b6850feb 100644
--- a/product/PortalTransforms/transforms/__init__.py
+++ b/product/PortalTransforms/transforms/__init__.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ modules = [
'safe_html', # extract <body> and remove potentially harmful tags
'html_body', # extract only the contents of the <body> tag
'html_to_text', # re based transform
+ 'xml_to_text', # re based transform
'text_to_html', # wrap text in a verbatim env
'text_pre_to_html', # wrap text into a pre
'png_to_text',
diff --git a/product/PortalTransforms/transforms/xml_to_text.py b/product/PortalTransforms/transforms/xml_to_text.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ec643d4207d09ede23d06a5ec26dc71250714b2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/product/PortalTransforms/transforms/xml_to_text.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+from Products.PortalTransforms.libtransforms.retransform import retransform
+
+class xml_to_text(retransform):
+ inputs = ('text/xml', 'application/xml')
+ output = 'text/plain'
+
+def register():
+ return xml_to_text("xml_to_text",
+ ('<[^>]*>', ' '),
+ )