diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index bbfe9550fc..c9073b6067 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ $(BASEDIR)/index.html: $(RENDERTMP)/$(BLFSHTML) version
                 --stringparam base.dir $(BASEDIR)/         \
                 stylesheets/blfs-chunked.xsl               \
                 $(RENDERTMP)/$(BLFSHTML)
+	$(Q)sed -i 's/xmlns:xlink.*xlink"//' $(BASEDIR)/longindex.html
 
 	@echo "Copying CSS code and images..."
 	$(Q)if [ ! -e $(BASEDIR)/stylesheets ]; then \
@@ -141,6 +142,7 @@ $(BASEDIR)/$(NOCHUNKS_OUTPUT): $(RENDERTMP)/$(BLFSHTML) version
                 --output $(BASEDIR)/$(NOCHUNKS_OUTPUT) \
                 stylesheets/blfs-nochunks.xsl          \
                 $(RENDERTMP)/$(BLFSHTML)
+	$(Q)sed -i 's/xmlns:xlink.*xlink"//' $(BASEDIR)/$(NOCHUNKS_OUTPUT)
 
 	@echo "Running Tidy and obfuscate.sh on non-chunked XHTML..."
 	$(Q)tidy -config tidy.conf $(BASEDIR)/$(NOCHUNKS_OUTPUT) || true
diff --git a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/chunk-slave.xsl b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/chunk-slave.xsl
index 84e204d3b7..64dd76ee09 100644
--- a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/chunk-slave.xsl
+++ b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/chunk-slave.xsl
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@
     <!-- Upstream XHTML presentation templates -->
   <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"/>
 
-    <!-- Use ISO-8859-1 for output instead of default UTF-8 -->
-  <xsl:param name="chunker.output.encoding" select="'ISO-8859-1'"/>
-
     <!-- Including our customized elements templates -->
   <xsl:include href="common.xsl"/>
   <xsl:include href="xhtml/lfs-admon.xsl"/>
diff --git a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/nochunks.xsl b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/nochunks.xsl
index b9232dd15a..ea030ebe34 100644
--- a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/nochunks.xsl
+++ b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/nochunks.xsl
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@
     <!-- Upstream XHTML templates -->
   <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"/>
 
-    <!-- Fix encoding issues with default UTF-8 output of the xhtml stylesheet -->
-  <xsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1" indent="no" />
-
    <!-- Including our others customized templates -->
   <xsl:include href="common.xsl"/>
   <xsl:include href="xhtml/lfs-index.xsl"/>
diff --git a/tidy.conf b/tidy.conf
index 8cfa28bed3..a4858f101e 100644
--- a/tidy.conf
+++ b/tidy.conf
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 indent-spaces: 2
 wrap: 78
 tab-size: 8
-input-encoding: latin1
-output-encoding: latin1
 newline: LF
 write-back: yes
 markup: yes