literallayout children losts

I have a <literallayout> containing <link>s. Using the
dsssl
stylesheets, this comes out as expected, but using the xsl
stylesheets, the link formatting is lost and only the
textual
content is left. This happens, because the templates in
verbatim.xsl construct a result tree fragment for the
children
of the <literallayout> and feed it through translate()
to convert
spaces to non-breaking spaces. But translate is a
string function,
thus only the string-value of the node-set remains
after this,
any elements contained in the result tree fragment are
lost.