XSL and White Space help PLEASE

Folks, 

I'm trying to insert a white space using XSL, but I don't seem to get it
working, I'm using msxml3.0 and 
I Tried the following..

<xsl:text> </xsl:text> and also
<xsl:text>&#32</xsl:text>


Niether of those is working, can you guys help me please.. I just want to
insert a space in the following example...

thanks, sridhar.



<xsl:choose>
           <xsl:when test="@AISLE">
           <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <font size="3" color="#000000">
              <i><xsl:text> Aisle: </xsl:text></i><xsl:value-of
select="@AISLE"/>
            </font>
           </xsl:when> 
 </xsl:choose>
          
   <xsl:choose>
           <xsl:when test="@BAY_NUM">
           <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <font size="3" color="#000000">
              <i><xsl:text> BayNum: </xsl:text></i><xsl:value-of
select="@BAY_NUM"/>
            </font>
           </xsl:when> 
     </xsl:choose>

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