Django XML Line breaks template filter

xml_tags.py

from django.template import Library
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe, SafeData
from django.utils.html import escape
from django.utils.text import normalize_newlines

register = Library()

@register.filter()
@stringfilter
def linebreaksxml(value, autoescape=True):
    """
    Converts all newlines in a piece of plain text to XML line breaks
    (``<text:line-break />``).
    """
    autoescape = autoescape and not isinstance(value, SafeData)
    value = normalize_newlines(value)
    if autoescape:
        value = escape(value)
    return mark_safe(value.replace('\n', '<text:line-break />'))

updated to include the necessary functions for safe strings. Turned on autoescape.