HELP with Carriage Returns

[Dave Donohoe]

Hi,
I am using an XSL Style sheet to display data from XML Using a table.....
All is fine until there is a Carriage Return in the XML ie
:
:
<description>This is the
description.</description>
:
:
When I try to assign this data to a variable, this causes an error - Unterminated String Constant - how can I escape the Carraige Return so that it wont cause an error but will still maintain its form?
D

[Mapraputa Is]

Dave, I tested your example with a simple XSLT
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="myVar" select="description"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$myVar"/>
</xsl:template>
and Xalan, and there were no problems at all, the output was
This is the
description.
What do you use for XSL transformation?