Newline breaks in XSLT (SharePoint DataForm Web Part)

Scenario: In a custom sharepoint .aspx page, I placed a dataform web part for display page of an item. The item has a column called "Contents". This is a field contains data as paragraphs. When I created a new item, entered data into "Contents" field with spaces between paragraphs. I want to see the data as I entered earlier in the EditForm.aspx & DisplayForm.aspx pages.

When I used , the contents field showed the data without newlines between the paragraphs.

Example:

I entered the data in NewForm.aspx as below:
"
aasdflasdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf.

234234aefase5asfgasdfa
asdfasdf
asdf
asdf
a

asdfasdfas"

Note: You can see spaces between the above statements. When I tried to display above content in DisplayForm.aspx, it showed without spaces & special characters as below:

"aasdflasdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf.234234aefase5asfgasdfaasdfasdfasdfasdfaasdfasdfas"

Solution:

Add following attributes to xsl:value-of tag:
a. select="ddwrt:AutoNewLine(string(@Contents))"
b. disable-output-escaping="yes"

Note:
1. You can find information about ddwrt:AutoNewLine at Microsoft Site.
2. disable-output-escaping="yes" attribute is meant for showing all special characters like quotes and so on.