replacing a character with a string

Is there a way to replace a character with a string in sort of the same way
translate() replaces a character with a character?  I have this block of
text in the XML that is contained in a sort of PRE tag and I want to replace
all the hard returns with  </fo:block><fo:block>.  I can capture the returns
by looking for &#xA;


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