Alternatively, there are ways to cheat -- for example, you could write a 
transformation that would >output plain text that would "happen to be" XML 
-- and that would contain the line breaks you >wanted.
It would, however, be a nightmare to combine this strategy with a regular 
every-day transformation, >though I can see it being done as a 
post-process.
wendell,
this is exactly what I was going to do in case the answer to my original 
question was in the negative.  I would use <xsl:output method="text"> and 
just format the xml by hand, as it were.  why do you say it would be a 
nightmare?  (granted it's not as elegant).
abie
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