Line breaking is ignored on a cover page when creating a PDF

[Nancy Brandt <nancy_brndt@yahoo.com>]

Hi folks,

In my stylesheet, the text block for creating the document's title on the front cover page is defined as follows:

<xsl:template name="front.cover">
  <fo:page-sequence master-reference="front-cover" force-page-count="no-force">
    <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
      <fo:block
        text-align="left"
        font-size="30pt"
        color="&j_cover_color;"
        padding-top="240pt"
        border-bottom="2pt solid &j_cover_color;"
        padding-bottom="1pt"
        margin-right="30pt"
        margin-left="75pt"
        font-weight="bold"
        font-family="{$title.fontset}">
        <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(//bookinfo//title)"/>
      </fo:block>

      <fo:block
        text-align="left"
        font-size="25pt"
        space-before="19pt"
        font-family="{$title.fontset}"
        color="&j_cover_color;"
        margin-right="30pt"
        margin-left="75pt"
        padding-top="5pt"
        padding-bottom="3pt">
        <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(//bookinfo//subtitle)"/>
      </fo:block>
    </fo:flow>
  </fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:template>


When I insert <sbr/> in the title, the line breaking command is ignored. The same happens with <trademark></trademark> - the 'tm' symbol does not appear on the cover page.

Please, advise!!!

Thanks in advance!
nancy