diff --git a/xml/upgrade-1.3.xsl b/xml/upgrade-1.3.xsl
index 5798a7c003..c0c1144748 100644
--- a/xml/upgrade-1.3.xsl
+++ b/xml/upgrade-1.3.xsl
@@ -1,95 +1,95 @@
 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
-<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
+<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
 
 <xsl:template match="role_ref">
   <xsl:element name="role">
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
   </xsl:element>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="read|write|deny">
   <xsl:element name="acl_permission">
 
     <xsl:copy-of select="@id"/>
     <xsl:attribute name="kind"><xsl:value-of select="name()"/></xsl:attribute>
 
     <!-- previously, one could have a single element "matched" multiple times,
          each time using a different attribute (or no attribute at all), which
          would result, after the generalization (stripping @attribute) in
          multiple possibly conflicting ACL behaviours for given element(s);
          we could take this into account by, at the very least, preferring
          the behavior at attribute-less specification, if any -->
     <xsl:choose>
       <xsl:when test="@ref">
         <xsl:attribute name="reference"><xsl:value-of select="@ref"/></xsl:attribute>
         <xsl:if test="@attribute">
           <!-- alternatively, rephrase (generalized a bit) turning it to @xpath -->
           <xsl:message>ACLs: @attribute cannot accompany @ref for upgrade-1.3.xsl purposes, ignoring</xsl:message>
         </xsl:if>
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:when test="@tag">
         <xsl:attribute name="object-type"><xsl:value-of select="@tag"/></xsl:attribute>
         <xsl:if test="@attribute">
           <xsl:message>ACLs: @attribute (with @tag) handling generalized a bit for upgrade-1.3.xsl purposes</xsl:message>
           <xsl:copy-of select="@attribute"/>
         </xsl:if>
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:otherwise>
         <!-- must have been xpath per the schema, then -->
         <xsl:choose>
           <xsl:when test="@attribute">
             <xsl:message>ACLs: @attribute (with @xpath) handling generalized a bit for upgrade-1.3.xsl purposes</xsl:message>
             <xsl:attribute name="xpath">
               <xsl:value-of select="concat(@xpath,'[@', @attribute, ']')"/>
             </xsl:attribute>
           </xsl:when>
           <xsl:otherwise>
             <xsl:copy-of select="@xpath"/>
           </xsl:otherwise>
         </xsl:choose>
       </xsl:otherwise>
     </xsl:choose>
 
   </xsl:element>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="acl_user[role_ref]">
   <!-- schema disallows role_ref's AND deny/read/write -->
   <xsl:element name="acl_target">
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
   </xsl:element>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="acl_user[not(role_ref)]">
 
   <xsl:element name="acl_target">
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
 
     <xsl:if test="count(deny|read|write)" > 
       <xsl:element name="role">
         <xsl:attribute name="id">
           <xsl:value-of select="concat('auto-', @id)"/>
         </xsl:attribute>
       </xsl:element>
     </xsl:if>
 
   </xsl:element>
 
   <xsl:if test="count(deny|read|write)" > 
     <xsl:element name="acl_role">
       <xsl:attribute name="id">
         <xsl:value-of select="concat('auto-', @id)"/>
       </xsl:attribute>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
     </xsl:element>
   </xsl:if>
 
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
   </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
 
 </xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/xml/upgrade-2.10.xsl b/xml/upgrade-2.10.xsl
index 50d8fe528f..ef1cb8961f 100644
--- a/xml/upgrade-2.10.xsl
+++ b/xml/upgrade-2.10.xsl
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
-<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
+<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
 
 <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
   </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
 
 </xsl:stylesheet>