strange <br/> tag

Hello,
I have a stylesheet that has <br/> command(s) in it (of course).  I
transform an xml document persisted from an ado recordset with this
stylesheet.  When I view the source, the <br/> tag looks like this:

<br xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882"
xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"
xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema">

Weird!  What is going on?
Karl

XSL SOURCE:
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
      xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882"
      xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"
      xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset"
      xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema">
<xsl:param name="table">EMPTY</xsl:param>
<xsl:output method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
 <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="rs:data/z:row">
        <xsl:value-of select="@optkeyword"/>
        <!-- delete link -->
  <xsl:call-template name="makeUrl">
         <xsl:with-param name="Display">D</xsl:with-param>
         <xsl:with-param name="jscript"><xsl:text>('</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="@optovertureid"/><xsl:text>'); return
false;</xsl:text></xsl:with-param>
        </xsl:call-template>
        <br/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template name="makeurl">
    </xsl:template>

   <xsl:template name="makeUrl">
      <xsl:param name="Display"/>
      <xsl:param name="jscript"/>
     <a>
   <xsl:attribute name="href">#</xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:attribute name="onclick"><xsl:value-of
select="$jscript"/></xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:value-of select="$Display"/>
        </a>
    </xsl:template>

  </xsl:stylesheet>



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