I need to render a line break using outputText so that I can utilize the rendered attributed. I tried
That's indeed not valid since Facelets because it's syntactically invalid in XML. You'd need to manually escape the XML special characters like <, > and so on.
You can however just emit the in template text without the need for a .
To render it conditionally, wrap it in for example a .
A is also valid as it doesn't emit anything to the HTML anyway.