diff --git a/xsl/xhtml.xsl b/xsl/xhtml.xsl
index f23e18eaf..ba7c03458 100644
--- a/xsl/xhtml.xsl
+++ b/xsl/xhtml.xsl
@@ -151,10 +151,7 @@
       <xsl:for-each select="document(concat('../content/', $newsfile))/item">
 
         <h3 class="news">
-          <a>
-            <xsl:attribute name="href">
-              <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($newsfile, '.xml')"/>.html
-            </xsl:attribute>
+          <a href="{substring-before($newsfile, '.xml')}.html">
             <xsl:value-of select="@title"/>
           </a>
         </h3>