You've specified the result of the function as xs:string. This means that
any elements in the result get atomized, and when you atomize an empty <br/>
element you get nothing (well, you get an empty string, which amounts to the
same thing...). Declare the result as node()* and all should be well.

My own style would be to use a template for this rather than a function.
It's not mandatory, but I think people expect when they see a call-template
that nodes will be constructed, and they don't expect that when the see a
function call.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Agnisys [mailto:agnisys@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 January 2006 22:01
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Returning HTML tags from a function not working
> 
> Hi,
>   I'm using Saxson XSLT 2.0 on a Linux system. 
> 
> Input looks like this:
> 
> <doc>
>  Some text that can be 
>  Multiline. It can also have lots of     spaces.
> </doc>
> 
> The Output of XSL is set to HTML.
> 
> I need the output to retain the newlines but retain the spaces.
> 
> So I want the HTML to look like:
> -----------------------------------------------
> Some text that can be 
> Multiline. It can also have lots of spaces.
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> Here is my function, but somehow the <br /> vanishes from the 
> HTML and so I get one line only.
> <xsl:function name="xrsl:printdoc" as="xs:string*">
>   <xsl:param name="docnode" as="element()?"/>
>   <xsl:if test="$docnode[1]">
>     <xsl:analyze-string  select="$docnode[1]" regex="\n">
>       <xsl:matching-substring><br /></xsl:matching-substring>
>       <xsl:non-matching-substring>
>         <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
>       </xsl:non-matching-substring>
>     </xsl:analyze-string>             
>   </xsl:if>
> </xsl:function>
> 
> Please help!
> Thanks,
> Anupam.
> 
>  
> 
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