How to implement Carriage return in XSLT

Question

I want to implement carriage return within xslt. The problem is I have a varible: Step 1 = Value 1 breaktag Step 2 = Value 2 as a string and would like to appear as

Answer 1

I was looking for a nice solution to this, as many would prefer, without embedding escape sequences directly in the expressions, or having weird line breaks inside of a variable. I found a hybrid of both this approaches actually works, by embedding a text node inside a variable like this:

Another nice side-affect of this is that you can pass in whatever newline you want, be it just LF, CR, or both CRLF.

--Daniel