diff --git a/xsl/xhtml5.xsl b/xsl/xhtml5.xsl
index 606fb7ed3..45f84b88c 100644
--- a/xsl/xhtml5.xsl
+++ b/xsl/xhtml5.xsl
@@ -257,16 +257,17 @@
     <xsl:for-each select="document('../news.xml')/page/news/newsfile">
       <xsl:sort select="date:seconds(document(concat('../', .))/item/@date)" data-type="number" order="descending" />
       <xsl:variable name="newsfile" select="."/>
+      <xsl:variable name="news" select="document(concat('../', $newsfile))"/>
 
-      <xsl:for-each select="document(concat('../', $newsfile))/item">
+      <xsl:for-each select="$news/item">
         <xsl:if test="((string-length($prefix) = 0) or
                        starts-with($newsfile, concat('content/news/', $prefix))) and
                       (($details != 'resources-only') or
                       (count(resource) &gt; 0)) and
                       starts-with(
                         date:difference(
-                          document(concat('../', .))/item/@date,
-                          date:date-time()
+                          date:date-time(),
+                          $news/item/@date
                         ),
                         '-'
                       )">