diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/style.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/style.html
index 307419721..01271b367 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/style.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/style.html
@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ element which is used to perform Entity and URI resolution.</p>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">filenameparameter</td>
-    <td valign="top">Specifies a xsl parameter for accessing the name 
-    of the current processed file. If not set, the file name is not 
+    <td valign="top">Specifies a xsl parameter for accessing the name
+    of the current processed file. If not set, the file name is not
     passed to the transformation.
     <em>Since Ant 1.7</em>.</td>
     <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
@@ -200,8 +200,9 @@ element which is used to perform Entity and URI resolution.</p>
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">filedirparameter</td>
     <td valign="top">Specifies a xsl parameter for accessing the directory
-    of the current processed file. If not set, the directory is not 
-    passed to the transformation.
+    of the current processed file. For files in the current directory a
+    value of '.' will be passed to the transformation.
+    If not set, the directory is not passed to the transformation. 
     <em>Since Ant 1.7</em>.</td>
     <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
   </tr>
@@ -454,7 +455,7 @@ See <a href="../CoreTypes/resources.html">resources</a> to see the concrete synt
 &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
 
 &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
-</pre>  
+</pre>
 
 </blockquote>
 <hr>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XSLTProcess.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XSLTProcess.java
index dff574c90..315540212 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XSLTProcess.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XSLTProcess.java
@@ -1037,13 +1037,23 @@ public class XSLTProcess extends MatchingTask implements XSLTLogger {
         File inFile
     ) throws Exception {
         String fileName = FileUtils.getRelativePath(baseDir, inFile);
-        File file = new File(fileName);
-
+        
+        String name;
+        String dir;
+        int lastDirSep = fileName.lastIndexOf("/");
+        if (lastDirSep > -1) {
+            name = fileName.substring(lastDirSep + 1);
+            dir  = fileName.substring(0, lastDirSep);
+        } else {
+            name = fileName;
+            dir  = ".";      // so a dir+"/"+name would not result in an absolute path
+        }
+        
         if (fileNameParameter != null) {
-            liaison.addParam(fileNameParameter, inFile.getName());
+            liaison.addParam(fileNameParameter, name);
         }
         if (fileDirParameter != null) {
-            liaison.addParam(fileDirParameter, (file.getParent()!=null) ? file.getParent() : "" );
+            liaison.addParam(fileDirParameter, dir);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/StyleTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/StyleTest.java
index be6063565..60d9fd22a 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/StyleTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/StyleTest.java
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ public class StyleTest extends BuildFileTest {
     public void testFilenameAndFiledirAsParam() throws Exception {
         executeTarget("testFilenameAndFiledirAsParam");
         assertFileContains("out/out/one.txt",      "filename='one.xml'");
-        assertFileContains("out/out/one.txt",      "filedir =''");
+        assertFileContains("out/out/one.txt",      "filedir ='.'");
         assertFileContains("out/out/dir/four.txt", "filename='four.xml'");
         assertFileContains("out/out/dir/four.txt", "filedir ='dir'");
     }