diff --git a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/XsltTransformerTests-context.xml b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/XsltTransformerTests-context.xml
index b2c572bec7..9ec4225c64 100644
--- a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/XsltTransformerTests-context.xml
+++ b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/XsltTransformerTests-context.xml
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@
         <int-xml:xslt-param name="testParam3" value="hello"/>
     </int-xml:xslt-transformer>
 
+    <int-xml:xslt-transformer id="outputAsString"
+                              input-channel="outputAsStringChannel"
+                              output-channel="output" result-type="StringResult" result-transformer="resultToStringTransformer"
+                              xsl-resource="classpath:org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/transform-tostring.xsl">
+    </int-xml:xslt-transformer>
+
+    <bean id="resultToStringTransformer" class="org.springframework.integration.xml.transformer.ResultToStringTransformer" />
 
 
 
diff --git a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/XsltTransformerTests.java b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/XsltTransformerTests.java
index 22707976f2..36319f3fe1 100644
--- a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/XsltTransformerTests.java
+++ b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/XsltTransformerTests.java
@@ -45,77 +45,92 @@ import static junit.framework.Assert.assertTrue;
 /**
  * @author Oleg Zhurakousky
  * @author Jonas Partner
- *
  */
 @ContextConfiguration
 @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
 public class XsltTransformerTests {
-	private String docAsString = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?><order><orderItem>test</orderItem></order>";
-	@Autowired
-	private ApplicationContext applicationContext;
-	@Autowired
-	@Qualifier("output")
-	private QueueChannel output;
-	@Test
-	public void testParamHeadersWithStartWildCharacter(){
-		MessageChannel input = applicationContext.getBean("paramHeadersWithStartWildCharacterChannel", MessageChannel.class);
-		Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload(this.docAsString).
-				setHeader("testParam", "testParamValue").
-				setHeader("testParam2", "FOO").
-				build(); 
-		input.send(message);
-		Message<?> resultMessage = output.receive();
-		MessageHistory history = MessageHistory.read(resultMessage);
-		assertNotNull(history);
-		Properties componentHistoryRecord = TestUtils.locateComponentInHistory(history, "paramHeadersWithStartWildCharacter", 0);
-		assertNotNull(componentHistoryRecord);
-		assertEquals("xml:xslt-transformer", componentHistoryRecord.get("type"));
-		assertEquals("Wrong payload type",String.class, resultMessage.getPayload().getClass());
-		assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("testParamValue"));
-		assertFalse(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("FOO"));
-	}
-	@Test
-	public void testParamHeadersWithEndWildCharacter(){
-		MessageChannel input = applicationContext.getBean("paramHeadersWithEndWildCharacterChannel", MessageChannel.class);
-		Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload(this.docAsString).
-				setHeader("testParam", "testParamValue").
-				setHeader("testParam2", "FOO").
-				build(); 
-		input.send(message);
-		Message<?> resultMessage = output.receive();
-		assertEquals("Wrong payload type",String.class, resultMessage.getPayload().getClass());
-		assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("testParamValue"));
-		assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("FOO"));
-	}
-	@Test
-	public void testParamHeadersWithIndividualParameters(){
-		MessageChannel input = applicationContext.getBean("paramHeadersWithIndividualParametersChannel", MessageChannel.class);
-		Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload(this.docAsString).
-				setHeader("testParam", "testParamValue").
-				setHeader("testParam2", "FOO").
-				build(); 
-		input.send(message);
-		Message<?> resultMessage = output.receive();
-		assertEquals("Wrong payload type",String.class, resultMessage.getPayload().getClass());
-		assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("testParamValue"));
-		assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("FOO"));
-		assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("hello"));
-	}
-	
-	@Test
-	public void testParamHeadersCombo(){
-		MessageChannel input = applicationContext.getBean("paramHeadersComboChannel", MessageChannel.class);
-		Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload(this.docAsString).
-				setHeader("testParam", "testParamValue").
-				setHeader("testParam2", "FOO").
-				build(); 
-		input.send(message);
-		Message<?> resultMessage = output.receive();
-		assertEquals("Wrong payload type",String.class, resultMessage.getPayload().getClass());
-		assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("testParamValue"));
-		assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("FOO"));
-		assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("hello"));
-	}
+    private String docAsString = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?><order><orderItem>test</orderItem></order>";
+    @Autowired
+    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;
+    @Autowired
+    @Qualifier("output")
+    private QueueChannel output;
+
+    @Test
+    public void testParamHeadersWithStartWildCharacter() {
+        MessageChannel input = applicationContext.getBean("paramHeadersWithStartWildCharacterChannel", MessageChannel.class);
+        Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload(this.docAsString).
+                setHeader("testParam", "testParamValue").
+                setHeader("testParam2", "FOO").
+                build();
+        input.send(message);
+        Message<?> resultMessage = output.receive();
+        MessageHistory history = MessageHistory.read(resultMessage);
+        assertNotNull(history);
+        Properties componentHistoryRecord = TestUtils.locateComponentInHistory(history, "paramHeadersWithStartWildCharacter", 0);
+        assertNotNull(componentHistoryRecord);
+        assertEquals("xml:xslt-transformer", componentHistoryRecord.get("type"));
+        assertEquals("Wrong payload type", String.class, resultMessage.getPayload().getClass());
+        assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("testParamValue"));
+        assertFalse(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("FOO"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testParamHeadersWithEndWildCharacter() {
+        MessageChannel input = applicationContext.getBean("paramHeadersWithEndWildCharacterChannel", MessageChannel.class);
+        Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload(this.docAsString).
+                setHeader("testParam", "testParamValue").
+                setHeader("testParam2", "FOO").
+                build();
+        input.send(message);
+        Message<?> resultMessage = output.receive();
+        assertEquals("Wrong payload type", String.class, resultMessage.getPayload().getClass());
+        assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("testParamValue"));
+        assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("FOO"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testParamHeadersWithIndividualParameters() {
+        MessageChannel input = applicationContext.getBean("paramHeadersWithIndividualParametersChannel", MessageChannel.class);
+        Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload(this.docAsString).
+                setHeader("testParam", "testParamValue").
+                setHeader("testParam2", "FOO").
+                build();
+        input.send(message);
+        Message<?> resultMessage = output.receive();
+        assertEquals("Wrong payload type", String.class, resultMessage.getPayload().getClass());
+        assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("testParamValue"));
+        assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("FOO"));
+        assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("hello"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testParamHeadersCombo() {
+        MessageChannel input = applicationContext.getBean("paramHeadersComboChannel", MessageChannel.class);
+        Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload(this.docAsString).
+                setHeader("testParam", "testParamValue").
+                setHeader("testParam2", "FOO").
+                build();
+        input.send(message);
+        Message<?> resultMessage = output.receive();
+        assertEquals("Wrong payload type", String.class, resultMessage.getPayload().getClass());
+        assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("testParamValue"));
+        assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("FOO"));
+        assertTrue(((String) resultMessage.getPayload()).contains("hello"));
+    }
+
+
+    @Test
+    public void outputAsString() {
+        MessageChannel input = applicationContext.getBean("outputAsStringChannel", MessageChannel.class);
+        Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload(this.docAsString).
+                build();
+        input.send(message);
+        Message<?> resultMessage = output.receive();
+        assertEquals("Wrong payload type", String.class, resultMessage.getPayload().getClass());
+        String stringPayload = (String)resultMessage.getPayload();
+        assertEquals("Wrong content of payload", "hello world text",stringPayload.trim());
+    }
 
 }
 
diff --git a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/transform-tostring.xsl b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/transform-tostring.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a0b276d1ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/transformer/transform-tostring.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
+   <xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8" />
+    <xsl:template match="order">
+        hello world text
+    </xsl:template>
+</xsl:stylesheet>
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