diff --git a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/builder.sh b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/builder.sh
index 01775585aba..1534806895c 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/builder.sh
+++ b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/builder.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 source $stdenv/setup
 
-mkdir $out
+ensureDir $out
 cd $out
 unpackFile $src
 mkdir xml
diff --git a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/default.nix b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/default.nix
index 60bfe405e2c..5ace3337c13 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "docbook-xsl-1.70.1";
+  name = "docbook-xsl-1.71.0";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.70.1.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "3ac0ab99bfbfc9c631baa03eef0f719c";
+    url = http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "42397442255e3c903b16d896446c3ce1";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.69.1.nix b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.69.1.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index b713a197de1..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.69.1.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "docbook-xsl-1.69.1";
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/docbook-xsl-1.69.1.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "6f2478faea86bd55abb36ddb57291347";
-  };
-}