diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_xpath.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_xpath.py
index 3a8e6dd78..57600b786 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_xpath.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_xpath.py
@@ -191,5 +191,35 @@ class XPathTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(xxs.extract(),
                          u'<root>lala</root>')
 
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    unittest.main()   
+    def test_unquote(self):
+        xmldoc='\n'.join((
+            '<root>',
+            '  lala',
+            '  <node>',
+            '    blabla&amp;more<!--comment-->a<b>test</b>oh',
+            '    <![CDATA[lalalal&ppppp<b>PPPP</b>ppp&amp;la]]>',
+            '  </node>',
+            '  pff',
+            '</root>'))
+        xxs = XmlXPathSelector(text=xmldoc)
+
+        self.assertEqual(xxs.extract_unquoted(), u'')
+
+        self.assertEqual(xxs.x('/root').extract_unquoted(), [u''])
+        self.assertEqual(xxs.x('/root/text()').extract_unquoted(), [
+            u'\n  lala\n  ',
+            u'\n  pff\n'])
+
+        self.assertEqual(xxs.x('//*').extract_unquoted(), [u'', u'', u''])
+        self.assertEqual(xxs.x('//text()').extract_unquoted(), [
+            u'\n  lala\n  ',
+            u'\n    blabla&more',
+            u'a',
+            u'test',
+            u'oh\n    ',
+            u'lalalal&ppppp<b>PPPP</b>ppp&amp;la',
+            u'\n  ',
+            u'\n  pff\n'])
+
+    if __name__ == "__main__":
+        unittest.main()   
diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/xpath/selector.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/xpath/selector.py
index f49e5c84c..3902efe27 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/xpath/selector.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/xpath/selector.py
@@ -73,6 +73,13 @@ class XPathSelector(object):
                 text = unicode(self.xmlNode)
         return text
 
+    def extract_unquoted(self):
+        """Get unescaped contents from the text node (no entities, no CDATA)"""
+        if self.x('self::text()'):
+            return unicode(self.xmlNode.getContent(), errors='ignore')
+        else:
+            return u''
+
     def register_namespace(self, prefix, uri):
         """Register namespace so that it can be used in XPath queries"""
         self.doc.xpathContext.xpathRegisterNs(prefix, uri)
@@ -98,12 +105,15 @@ class XPathSelectorList(list):
         """Perform the re() method on each XPathSelector of the list, and
         return the result as a flattened list of unicode strings"""
         return flatten([x.re(regex) for x in self])
-    
+
     def extract(self):
         """Return a list of unicode strings with the content referenced by each
         XPathSelector of the list"""
         return [x.extract() if isinstance(x, XPathSelector) else x for x in self]
 
+    def extract_unquoted(self):
+        return [x.extract_unquoted() if isinstance(x, XPathSelector) else x for x in self]
+
 
 class XmlXPathSelector(XPathSelector):
     """XPathSelector for XML content"""