diff --git a/DocGen4/Output/DocString.lean b/DocGen4/Output/DocString.lean
index 26d6c38e..b774f5bd 100644
--- a/DocGen4/Output/DocString.lean
+++ b/DocGen4/Output/DocString.lean
@@ -208,24 +208,6 @@ partial def modifyElement (element : Element) : HtmlM Element :=
         | _ => pure c
       return ⟨ name, attrs, newContents ⟩
 
--- TODO: remove the following 3 functions
--- once <https://github.com/leanprover/lean4/issues/4411> is fixed
-
-private def _root_.Lean.Xml.Attributes.toStringEscaped (as : Attributes) : String :=
-  as.fold (fun s n v => s ++ s!" {n}=\"{Html.escape v}\"") ""
-
-mutual
-
-private partial def _root_.Lean.Xml.eToStringEscaped : Element → String
-| Element.Element n a c => s!"<{n}{a.toStringEscaped}>{c.map cToStringEscaped |>.foldl (· ++ ·) ""}</{n}>"
-
-private partial def _root_.Lean.Xml.cToStringEscaped : Content → String
-| Content.Element e => eToStringEscaped e
-| Content.Comment c => s!"<!--{c}-->"
-| Content.Character c => Html.escape c
-
-end
-
 /-- Convert docstring to Html. -/
 def docStringToHtml (s : String) : HtmlM (Array Html) := do
   let rendered := match MD4Lean.renderHtml s with
diff --git a/DocGen4/Output/ToHtmlFormat.lean b/DocGen4/Output/ToHtmlFormat.lean
index 13d6acaf..df36f6d1 100644
--- a/DocGen4/Output/ToHtmlFormat.lean
+++ b/DocGen4/Output/ToHtmlFormat.lean
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE.
 Authors: Wojciech Nawrocki, Sebastian Ullrich, Henrik Böving
 -/
 import Lean.Data.Json
+import Lean.Data.Xml
 import Lean.Parser
 
 /-! This module defines:
@@ -42,6 +43,36 @@ def escapePairs : Array (String × String) :=
 def escape (s : String) : String :=
   escapePairs.foldl (fun acc (o, r) => acc.replace o r) s
 
+-- TODO: remove the following 3 functions
+-- once <https://github.com/leanprover/lean4/issues/4411> is fixed
+
+def _root_.Lean.Xml.Attributes.toStringEscaped (as : Xml.Attributes) : String :=
+  as.fold (fun s n v => s ++ s!" {n}=\"{Html.escape v}\"") ""
+
+mutual
+
+partial def _root_.Lean.Xml.eToStringEscaped : Xml.Element → String
+| .Element n a c => s!"<{n}{a.toStringEscaped}>{c.map cToStringEscaped |>.foldl (· ++ ·) ""}</{n}>"
+
+partial def _root_.Lean.Xml.cToStringEscaped : Xml.Content → String
+| .Element e => eToStringEscaped e
+| .Comment c => s!"<!--{c}-->"
+| .Character c => Html.escape c
+
+end
+
+mutual
+
+partial def _root_.Lean.Xml.eToPlaintext : Xml.Element → String
+| .Element _ _ c => s!"{c.map cToPlaintext |>.foldl (· ++ ·) ""}"
+
+partial def _root_.Lean.Xml.cToPlaintext : Xml.Content → String
+| .Element e => eToPlaintext e
+| .Comment _ => ""
+| .Character c => c
+
+end
+
 def attributesToString (attrs : Array (String × String)) :String :=
   attrs.foldl (fun acc (k, v) => acc ++ " " ++ k ++ "=\"" ++ escape v ++ "\"") ""