disappearing line breaks within an element

Dear List,

I've been struggeling with an entity problem all day, and the things I tried
didn't work out.

I'm working with Saxxon 8B and XSLT 2.0.

I have an imput file wich contains XML-output from a sybase database.
Long text fields may contain line breaks which appear in the XML as 


Example:
<UserField Type="longtext" Name="some name">I'm a veeery long text.I'm a
veeery long text in some text.I'm
                        a veeery long text in some text.I'm a veeery long text
in
                        some text.&#xD;I'm a veeery long text in .I'm a veeery
long text in some text.I'm a veeery long
                        text in some text.I'm a veeery long text in
.&#xD;&#xD;&#xD;I'm a veeery long text in
                        .I'm a veeery long text in some text.I'm a veeery
long
                        text in some text.I'm a veeery long text
in.</UserField>

When I transform the XML to HTML, they just dissappear.
I searched in the  mailing list archive and I seem to have understood that
when the file is parsed, the  &#xD; becomes a line break. I suppose this is
why I fail with the following tokenization?

 <xsl:for-each select="fn:tokenize(.,'&#xD;' )">
     <xsl:if test="(fn:string-length(fn:normalize-space (.)) &gt; 0)">
          <xsl:value-of select="."/>
            <br/>
          </xsl:if>
 </xsl:for-each>


If so, how do I do this?

I also tried using a character map, but still it does not work out.
<xsl:character-map name="break">

            <xsl:output-character character="&#160;"
                string="&amp;nbsp;" />
            <xsl:output-character character="&#xD;" string="&lt;br/>"/>


    </xsl:character-map>

 Someone mentioned that with XSLT 2.0 there was a way to convert the parsed
entity back to an entity, but I didn't understand how and where I would have
to do that.
 Could someone explain or point me to a book? I tried with Frank Bongers' but
unfortunately, I haven't found anything dealing with line break codes within
an element (the ebook-Version my library provides has no bookmarks or
cross-references which makes it rather unwildy, so maybe I failed to find
it).

 I'd appreaciate any help (and will remember to send my thanks to the list
address and not the digest address as happend last time ;-)


 Regards
 CJ