diff --git a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/chunk-slave.xsl b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/chunk-slave.xsl
index f5bc8a956..45d33e04a 100644
--- a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/chunk-slave.xsl
+++ b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/chunk-slave.xsl
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@
   <!-- Upstream XHTML presentation templates -->
   <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"/>
 
+  <xsl:param name="chunker.output.method" select="'xml'"/>
+  <xsl:param name="chunker.output.encoding" select="'UTF-8'"/>
+  <xsl:param name="chunker.output.media-type" select="'application/xhtml+xml'"/>
+  <xsl:param name="chunker.output.doctype-public" select="'-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN'"/>
+  <xsl:param name="chunker.output.doctype-system" select="'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd'"/>
+  <xsl:param name="chunker.output.omit-xml-declaration" select="'yes'"/>
+  <xsl:param name="chunker.output.indent" select="'no'"/>
+
   <!-- Including our customized elements templates -->
   <xsl:include href="common.xsl"/>
   <xsl:include href="xhtml/lfs-admon.xsl"/>
@@ -31,9 +39,6 @@
   <xsl:param name="ulink.target" select="''"/>
   <xsl:param name="css.decoration" select="0"/>
 
-  <!-- No XML declaration -->
-  <xsl:param name="chunker.output.omit-xml-declaration" select="'yes'"/>
-
   <!-- Control generation of ToCs and LoTs -->
   <xsl:param name="generate.toc">
     book      toc,title
diff --git a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/nochunks.xsl b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/nochunks.xsl
index 5a5ad36f5..896449d7c 100644
--- a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/nochunks.xsl
+++ b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/nochunks.xsl
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@
   <!-- Upstream XHTML templates -->
   <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"/>
 
+  <xsl:output method="xml"
+              encoding="UTF-8"
+              media-type="application/xhtml+xml"
+              doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+              doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
+              omit-xml-declaration="yes"
+              indent="no" />
   <!-- Include our customized templates -->
   <xsl:include href="common.xsl"/>
   <xsl:include href="xhtml/lfs-index.xsl"/>