converting xml to html using xsl and preserving newline / formatting ?

I want to build a web page on the fly based upon data stored in SQL. I currently read the data into a datatable and extract the xml representation. Using xsl I then apply an xslt stylesheet to produce an html representation of my data. This works great, however ...

Some of the data contain embedded \n character (entered via a richtextbox). How do I preserve these so the resultant html reflect the formating. Currently all formating characters are removed and I get one long string instead of a set of coherent paragraphs.

Also, is there a way in which I can transform rtf formated text direct to html ?

Thanks,

Nick

[634 byte] By [NickUk] at [2008-2-21]