Saxon's handling of line breaks

Working with Saxon 6.5.1 on the Windows platform I noticed that line
breaks literally represented as text elements are being output
incorrectly for the Windows platform.

For example,

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="number">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
	
</xsl:stylesheet>

When I capture the output produced by this stylesheet in a file and open
in the Windows notepad editor it does not display correctly because
notepad expects CR+NL pairs. Now if I open the stylesheet in notepad, it
DOES display correctly which leads me to believe that the <text> element
is actually enclosing a CR+NL pair. It seems that the either the
stylesheet parser or the output serializer in saxon is stripping the CR.
When I use the same stylesheet with xalan it works correctly.

Is this a bug in saxon or a misunderstanding on my part?

In general, how are stylesheets supposed to deal with line breaks in a
portable fashion?

Thanks,

Sal



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