your entity will be expanded before XSLT starts so if you write "&lb;" the
XSLT engine will see a newline char, the same as if you had gone "
"
or just "
"
in all cases the white space will be stripped unless you stop it being
stripped eg by putting it in <xsl:text>.

David

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