xsl/groff varlistentry/term

I want the synonymous options to be listed on separate lines,
like this:

  -h
  -help
        Displays a help message ....

I tried

<xsl:template match="varlistentry/term">
 <span class="term"><xsl:call-template name="anchor"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates/>&#10;
 </span>
</xsl:template>

(similar to

<xsl:template match="varlistentry/term">
 <span class="term"><xsl:call-template name="anchor"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates/><br/>
 </span>
</xsl:template>

for XHTML), but I get

       -h--help
              Displays a help message ....

Please help!

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