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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