> This seems like the simplest way of doing it, but it doesn't work:
> <xsl:value-of select="." /><br/>

that's correct: If it doesn't work you are doing something else wrong.

> <xsl:value-of select="<br/>" />
that isn't XML (can't have < in an attribute value, so the xsl system
will not even have seen it, having been rejected by the parser)

> <xsl:value-of select="'<br/>'" />
ditto

> <xsl:value-of select="'&lt;br/&gt;'" />
That is equivalent to
<xsl:text>&lt;br/&gt</xsl:text>
and would produce something that displays as <br/> ratger than a new line.

> <xsl:value-of select="&lt;br/&gt;" />
That is legal XML but is an XSLT syntax error as You can't start an
XPath expression with <

David

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