There is too much whitespace in the site.jsl Jelly script that converts xdocs to HTML. This results in some ugly HTML option (especially when the original xdoc source document has a lot of HTML markup). There is an easy fix: simply remove the whitespace from the last few Jelly templates in the stylesheet: <!-- copy any other elements through --> <jsl:template match="*" trim="false"><jsl:copy trim="false"><jsl:applyTemplates trim="false"/></jsl:copy></jsl:template> <!-- element values don't pass through as text --> <jsl:template match="@*"/> <!-- CDATA and text nodes pass-thru --> <jsl:template match="text()"><x:expr select="."/></jsl:template> </jsl:stylesheet>