RE: unwelcome SPAN in text output

Thanks for your help. I'm new to this list, and also to XSLT
(what a struggle, even aided by Michael's excellent book).

* input sample (no SPAN elements that I can detect, very short)
* stylesheet (with text output mode set)
* the output loaded with SPAN.

I'm flumoxed. I have noticed that the processor ignores
my newline instruction <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

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

	xmlns:taxo="urn:taxonomy-analysis:xslt"
	xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
	xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
	>
	<xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8" indent="no"/>

			<!--emit ID, position, depth, parent ID tuple-->
			<xsl:value-of select="@taxo:name"/>
			<xsl:text>	</xsl:text>
			<xsl:value-of select="@taxo:index"/>
			<xsl:text>	</xsl:text>
			<xsl:value-of select="@taxo:depth"/>
			<xsl:text>	</xsl:text>
			<xsl:if test="$parentID">
				<xsl:value-of select="$parentID"/>
			</xsl:if>
			<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="taxo:show"/>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>