diff --git a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
index 77cd666b8c6d..a955f5cf8a48 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 let
 
   common = { pname, sha256 }: stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-    name = "${pname}-1.78.1";
+    name = "${pname}-1.79.1";
 
     src = fetchurl {
       url = "mirror://sourceforge/docbook/${name}.tar.bz2";
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ in {
 
   docbook_xsl = common {
     pname = "docbook-xsl";
-    sha256 = "0rxl013ncmz1n6ymk2idvx3hix9pdabk8xn01cpcv32wmfb753y9";
+    sha256 = "0s59lihif2fr7rznckxr2kfyrvkirv76r1zvidp9b5mj28p4apvj";
   };
 
   docbook_xsl_ns = common {
     pname = "docbook-xsl-ns";
-    sha256 = "1x3sc0axk9z3i6n0jhlsmzlmb723a4sjgslm9g12by6phirdx3ng";
+    sha256 = "170ggf5dgjar65kkn5n33kvjr3pdinpj66nnxfx8b2avw0k91jin";
   };
 
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlto/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlto/default.nix
index f99c14720760..37bc1831d5b1 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlto/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlto/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 { fetchurl, stdenv, flex, libxml2, libxslt
-, docbook_xml_dtd_42, docbook_xsl, w3m
+, docbook_xml_dtd_45, docbook_xsl, w3m
 , bash, getopt, makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "xmlto-0.0.26";
+  name = "xmlto-0.0.28";
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://fedorahosted.org/releases/x/m/xmlto/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1v5mahfg5k9lh3anykl482xnrgxn36zlmqsgwahw29xwncprpd7g";
+    sha256 = "0xhj8b2pwp4vhl9y16v3dpxpsakkflfamr191mprzsspg4xdyc0i";
   };
 
   patchPhase = ''
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   # `libxml2' provides `xmllint', needed at build-time and run-time.
   # `libxslt' provides `xsltproc', used by `xmlto' at run-time.
-  buildInputs = [ libxml2 libxslt docbook_xml_dtd_42 docbook_xsl getopt makeWrapper ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+  buildInputs = [ libxml2 libxslt docbook_xml_dtd_45 docbook_xsl getopt ];
 
   postInstall = ''
     wrapProgram "$out/bin/xmlto" \