diff --git a/core.xsl b/core.xsl
index 5984523..ab5b662 100644
--- a/core.xsl
+++ b/core.xsl
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@
   </xsl:template>
 
   <!-- HTML and MathML nodes should be copied with namespace prefixes stripped.-->
+
+  <!-- A weird hack to get around the bad behaviour of method="html" -->
+  <xsl:template match="html:br">
+    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
+      <![CDATA[<br/>]]>
+    </xsl:text>
+  </xsl:template>
+
   <xsl:template match="html:*">
     <xsl:element namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="{local-name()}">
       <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />