How to implement Carriage return in XSLT

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

Step 1 = Value 1

Step 2 = Value 2

in the HTML form but I am getting the br tag on the page.Any good ways of implementing a line feed/carriage return in xsl would be appreciated