diff --git a/xml2xslt.xsl b/xml2xslt.xsl
index e36ab60..b08cecf 100755
--- a/xml2xslt.xsl
+++ b/xml2xslt.xsl
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
 		<xsl-out:param name="paper-number"/>
 		
 		<xsl-out:param name="showanswers" select="'no'"/>
+		
+		<xsl-out:param name="base-path">.</xsl-out:param>
 
 		<!-- copy in the generated Oracle documentation code -->
 		<xsl:copy-of select="document('oracle-docs.xsl')/stylesheet/*"/>
@@ -153,6 +155,7 @@
 \usepackage{mathpple}
 \usepackage{multirow}
 \usepackage{graphicx}
+\usepackage{verbatim} % needed for \verbatiminput
 <xsl-out:apply-templates select="environment/latex-packages"/>
 \usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}