diff --git a/docs/manual/listeners.html b/docs/manual/listeners.html
index aba880df1..e65398efb 100644
--- a/docs/manual/listeners.html
+++ b/docs/manual/listeners.html
@@ -269,7 +269,20 @@ corresponding Log4j level.</p>
 <h3><a name="XmlLogger">XmlLogger</a></h3>
 
 <p>Writes all build information out to an XML file named log.xml, or the value
-of the XmlLogger.file property if present.</p>
+of the <code>XmlLogger.file</code> property if present. 
+<p>
+By default the xml file creates 
+a reference to an xslt file "log.xsl" in the current directory; look in 
+ANT_HOME/etc for one of these. You can set the property 
+<code>ant.XmlLogger.stylesheet.uri</code> to provide a uri to a style sheet.
+this can be a relative or absolute file path, or an http URL. 
+If you set the property to the empty string, "", no XSLT transform
+is declared at all. 
+
+ 
+
+
+</p>
 
 <blockquote>
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/XmlLogger.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/XmlLogger.java
index 62d4f2071..8a46a90fe 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/XmlLogger.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/XmlLogger.java
@@ -185,10 +185,14 @@ public class XmlLogger implements BuildListener {
             buildElement.element.appendChild(stacktrace);
         }
 
-       String outFilename = event.getProject().getProperty("XmlLogger.file");
+        String outFilename = event.getProject().getProperty("XmlLogger.file");
         if (outFilename == null) {
             outFilename = "log.xml";
         }
+        String xslUri=event.getProject().getProperty("ant.XmlLogger.stylesheet.uri");
+        if(xslUri==null) {
+            xslUri="log.xsl";
+        }
         Writer out = null;
         try {
             // specify output in UTF8 otherwise accented characters will blow
@@ -196,7 +200,9 @@ public class XmlLogger implements BuildListener {
             FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(outFilename);
             out = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, "UTF8");
             out.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>\n");
-            out.write("<?xml-stylesheet type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"log.xsl\"?>\n\n");
+            if(xslUri.length()>0) {
+                out.write("<?xml-stylesheet type=\"text/xsl\" href=\""+xslUri+"\"?>\n\n");
+            }
             (new DOMElementWriter()).write(buildElement.element, out, 0, "\t");
             out.flush();
         } catch(IOException exc) {