Inserting a line break in a PDF generated from XSL FO using

You shouldn't use xsl:value-of instruction but xsl:apply-templates instead: for built-in rule for text node will just output their string value, and for empty br element you could declare a rule matching descriptionStr/br or descriptionStr//br (depending your input) in order to transform to empty fo:block .

You could also replace with and add a linefeed-treatment="preserve" attribute to your .

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