A sample xslt follows...

I am having a hell of a time getting newlines (cr/lf) to print to the output 
document when testing any xslt with VS2005 or msxsl.exe.  I know that the 
unicode is correct because the transformations work when using they are run 
by a macro I have from VS2003 as well  as in the production environment.

I have played with the encoding value on the xslt's Properties box in 
VS2005, with no difference.  

--running sample xslt below with VS2005 or msxsl.exe 
Line 1Line 2

--running sample xslt below with macro
Line 1
Line 2


 The macro code-------------------
<snip>
               Dim myXpathDoc As XPath.XPathDocument

                myXpathDoc = New XPath.XPathDocument(xmlFile)

                ' Check and be sure that the current active document is an 
XSLT file.
                ' we need an xslt transform object here 
                Dim xslt As Xsl.XslTransform
                xslt = New Xsl.XslTransform
                xslt.Load(DTE.ActiveDocument.FullName)
                xslt.Transform(myXpathDoc, Nothing, writer)
<snip>
-------------------------------------

a sample xslt--------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="text"/>
  <xsl:param name="newline">
</xsl:param>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:text>Line 1</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
    <xsl:text>Line 2</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
-- 
kevin...