line issue in xsl

I am trying to send some content as email body, but content it is coming in two line like as highlighted in yellow below.  
Dear and , are static content and name is dynamic content

below is the code
    <table style="font-family:Calibri;" border="0" cellpadding="3">
            <tr>
                <xsl:text> Dear </xsl:text>
                <xsl:value-of select="userDetails/FirstName"/>
                <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>        
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <br/>
            </tr>