diff --git a/build.properties b/build.properties
index 27f21f8..8395dc2 100644
--- a/build.properties
+++ b/build.properties
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ source.findbugs.jar = src/java/,\
 # Set this to the directory containing the DocBook Modular XSL Stylesheets
 #  from http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/
 
-xsl.stylesheet.home	=${local.software.home}/docbook-xsl-1.76.1
+xsl.stylesheet.home	=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1
 
 # Set this to the directory containing the svnant Ant jars.  These are
 # needed for the srcdist target and to get the svn revision number
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 1cba081..60ad6d1 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -855,24 +855,16 @@
     -->
     <target name="generatemanual" unless="manual.uptodate">
         <echo>Generating HTML version of manual</echo>
-        <echo>Running saxon: ${saxon.home}/saxon.jar</echo>
-        <java fork="true" dir="${docoutput.dir}" failonerror="true" classname="com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet" >
-            <classpath>
-                <pathelement location="${saxon.home}/saxon.jar"/>
-                <pathelement path="${java.class.path}"/>
-            </classpath>
-            <arg value="manual.xml" />
+        <echo>Running xsltproc</echo>
+        <exec dir="${docoutput.dir}" failonerror="true" executable="xsltproc">
             <arg value="manual.xsl" />
-        </java>
+            <arg value="manual.xml" />
+        </exec>
 
-        <java fork="true" dir="${docoutput.dir}/ja" failonerror="true" classname="com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet" >
-            <classpath>
-                <pathelement location="${saxon.home}/saxon.jar"/>
-                <pathelement path="${java.class.path}"/>
-            </classpath>
-            <arg value="../manual_ja.xml" />
+        <exec dir="${docoutput.dir}/ja" failonerror="true" executable="xsltproc">
             <arg value="../manual.xsl" />
-        </java>
+            <arg value="../manual_ja.xml" />
+        </exec>
     </target>
 
     <!--