diff --git a/sql_metadata/nested_resolver.py b/sql_metadata/nested_resolver.py
index 771fd0b9..3efa9ef2 100644
--- a/sql_metadata/nested_resolver.py
+++ b/sql_metadata/nested_resolver.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
     from sql_metadata.parser import Parser
 
 from sqlglot import exp
+from sqlglot.errors import ErrorLevel
 from sqlglot.generator import Generator
 
 from sql_metadata.utils import (
@@ -678,7 +679,13 @@ def _body_sql(node: exp.Expression) -> str:
         body = node.copy()
         for ident in body.find_all(exp.Identifier):
             ident.set("quoted", False)
-        return _PreservingGenerator().generate(body, copy=False)
+        # IGNORE unsupported-feature warnings: the rendered SQL is only fed
+        # back into a sub-Parser and never shown to the user, so warnings
+        # about constructs sqlglot can't faithfully re-emit (e.g. T-SQL
+        # FOR XML PATH) are noise.
+        return _PreservingGenerator(unsupported_level=ErrorLevel.IGNORE).generate(
+            body, copy=False
+        )
 
     @staticmethod
     def _walk_subqueries(
diff --git a/test/test_mssql_server.py b/test/test_mssql_server.py
index 82081082..1035b4eb 100644
--- a/test/test_mssql_server.py
+++ b/test/test_mssql_server.py
@@ -187,3 +187,19 @@ def test_mssql_catalog_double_dot():
     """SQL Server three-part name with empty db: catalog..table."""
     p = Parser("SELECT * FROM mydb..orders")
     assert "mydb..orders" in p.tables
+
+
+def test_for_xml_path_does_not_emit_sqlglot_warning(caplog):
+    # Test for issue #261: T-SQL FOR XML PATH queries parsed cleanly but
+    # sqlglot leaked "Unsupported query option." warnings when
+    # NestedResolver re-rendered subquery bodies internally.
+    # https://github.com/macbre/sql-metadata/issues/261
+    query = """
+        SELECT B.id, STUFF((SELECT ', ' + A.[name]
+            FROM (SELECT id, name FROM table_enc) A
+            WHERE A.id = B.[id] FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '') AS [output]
+        FROM (SELECT id FROM table_enc) B
+    """
+    with caplog.at_level("WARNING", logger="sqlglot"):
+        Parser(query).columns  # .columns drives NestedResolver._body_sql
+    assert caplog.records == []