How to preserve the "\n" or "\r" in attribute value

Hi,
In my XML file, I have one element with attribute "text". The value of
attribute contains
the linefeed or CR characters.
Ex: <myele text="very long lines here"/>
How can preserve these characters in the output. I am using xalan and saxon
to process
my XML.
thanks




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