diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-html-common.xsl b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-html-common.xsl
index 96dd2cc038d..9df2782ce4f 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-html-common.xsl
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-html-common.xsl
@@ -127,8 +127,11 @@ set       toc,title
                                                  &uppercase;),
                                              substring(&primary;, 1, 1)))]"/>
 
-  <div class="index">
-    <!-- pgsql-docs: begin added stuff -->
+  <!-- pgsql-docs: added xmlns:xlink, autoidx.xsl doesn't include xlink in
+       exclude-result-prefixes. Without our customization that just leads to a
+       single xmlns:xlink in this div, but because we emit it it otherwise
+       gets pushed down to the elements output by autoidx.xsl -->
+  <div class="index" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
     <p class="indexdiv-quicklinks">
       <a href="#indexdiv-Symbols">
         <xsl:call-template name="gentext">