diff --git a/docs/Makefile.am b/docs/Makefile.am
index adf74eeb167847f161b41cf915bb9369690a03f1..c4926d4e78cc29b8ba0eb1b5b5fa14483d63d4fc 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/Makefile.am
@@ -88,7 +88,10 @@ EXTRA_DIST=					\
   sitemap.html.in \
   todo.pl todo.cfg-example
 
-MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = $(dot_html) $(apihtml) $(devhelphtml)
+MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = \
+  $(addprefix $(srcdir)/,$(dot_html)) \
+  $(addprefix $(srcdir)/,$(apihtml)) \
+  $(addprefix $(srcdir)/,$(devhelphtml))
 
 all: web
 
@@ -146,19 +149,20 @@ internals/%.html.tmp: internals/%.html.in subsite.xsl page.xsl sitemap.html.in
 html/index.html: libvirt-api.xml newapi.xsl page.xsl sitemap.html.in
 	-@if [ -x $(XSLTPROC) ] ; then \
 	  echo "Rebuilding the HTML pages from the XML API" ; \
-	  $(XSLTPROC) --nonet $(srcdir)/newapi.xsl $(srcdir)/libvirt-api.xml ; fi
+	  $(XSLTPROC) --nonet -o $(srcdir)/ \
+	  $(srcdir)/newapi.xsl $(srcdir)/libvirt-api.xml ; fi
 	-@if test -x $(XMLLINT) && test -x $(XMLCATALOG) ; then \
 	  if $(XMLCATALOG) '$(XML_CATALOG_FILE)' "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" \
 	    > /dev/null ; then \
 	  echo "Validating the resulting XHTML pages" ; \
 	  SGML_CATALOG_FILES='$(XML_CATALOG_FILE)' \
-	  $(XMLLINT) --catalogs --nonet --valid --noout html/*.html ; \
+	  $(XMLLINT) --catalogs --nonet --valid --noout $(srcdir)/html/*.html ; \
 	  else echo "missing XHTML1 DTD" ; fi ; fi
 
 $(addprefix $(srcdir)/,$(devhelphtml)): $(srcdir)/libvirt-api.xml $(devhelpxsl)
 	-@echo Rebuilding devhelp files
 	-@if [ -x $(XSLTPROC) ] ; then \
-	  $(XSLTPROC) --nonet -o devhelp/libvirt.devhelp \
+	  $(XSLTPROC) --nonet -o $(srcdir)/devhelp/ \
 	  $(top_srcdir)/docs/devhelp/devhelp.xsl $(srcdir)/libvirt-api.xml ; fi
 
 python_generated_files = \
diff --git a/docs/devhelp/devhelp.xsl b/docs/devhelp/devhelp.xsl
index 6600f5fe1efe6e5017127114032ce74f9b5b35e9..add5794deb68afabe76be234905a1bcb72fb245d 100644
--- a/docs/devhelp/devhelp.xsl
+++ b/docs/devhelp/devhelp.xsl
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@
   <!-- Build keys for all symbols -->
   <xsl:key name="symbols" match="/api/symbols/*" use="@name"/>
 
+  <xsl:template match="/">
+    <xsl:document xmlns="http://www.devhelp.net/book" href="libvirt.devhelp"
+                  method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes">
+      <xsl:apply-templates/>
+    </xsl:document>
+  </xsl:template>
+
   <xsl:template match="/api">
     <book title="{@name} Reference Manual" link="index.html" author="" name="{@name}">
       <xsl:apply-templates select="files"/>