diff --git a/xml2xslt.xsl b/xml2xslt.xsl
index bf656f7..9e51aae 100755
--- a/xml2xslt.xsl
+++ b/xml2xslt.xsl
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@
 					method="xml"
 					encoding="{$text-encoding}"
 					byte-order-mark="no"
-					omit-xml-declaration="yes"
 					version="1.1"
 					media-type="text/html"
 					doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"