diff --git a/docs/newapi.xsl b/docs/newapi.xsl
index ebe7fdedd7..d6f8d88170 100644
--- a/docs/newapi.xsl
+++ b/docs/newapi.xsl
@@ -815,7 +815,8 @@
         encoding="UTF-8">
         <xsl:apply-templates select="exsl:node-set($subpage)" mode="page">
           <xsl:with-param name="timestamp" select="$timestamp"/>
-          <xsl:with-param name="href_base" select="$href_base"/>
+          <xsl:with-param name="link_href_base" select="$href_base"/>
+          <xsl:with-param name="asset_href_base" select="$href_base"/>
         </xsl:apply-templates>
       </xsl:document>
     </xsl:for-each>
diff --git a/docs/page.xsl b/docs/page.xsl
index 5d55fac43f..a51587db6c 100644
--- a/docs/page.xsl
+++ b/docs/page.xsl
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
   <xsl:template match="/" mode="page">
     <xsl:param name="pagesrc"/>
     <xsl:param name="timestamp"/>
-    <xsl:param name="href_base"/>
+    <xsl:param name="link_href_base"/>
+    <xsl:param name="asset_href_base"/>
     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
 </xsl:text>
     <html data-sourcedoc="{$pagesrc}">
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@
       <head>
         <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
         <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
-        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$href_base}css/main.css"/>
+        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$asset_href_base}css/main.css"/>
         <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"/>
         <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png"/>
         <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon-16x16.png"/>
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@
             <meta name="go-import" content="{/html:html/html:head/html:meta[@name='go-import']/@content}"/>
         </xsl:if>
 
-        <script type="text/javascript" src="{$href_base}js/main.js">
+        <script type="text/javascript" src="{$asset_href_base}js/main.js">
           <xsl:comment>// forces non-empty element</xsl:comment>
         </script>
       </head>
@@ -62,13 +63,13 @@
         </div>
         <div id="nav">
           <div id="home">
-            <a href="{$href_base}index.html">Home</a>
+            <a href="{$link_href_base}index.html">Home</a>
           </div>
           <div id="jumplinks">
             <ul>
-              <li><a href="{$href_base}downloads.html">Download</a></li>
-              <li><a href="{$href_base}contribute.html">Contribute</a></li>
-              <li><a href="{$href_base}docs.html">Docs</a></li>
+              <li><a href="{$link_href_base}downloads.html">Download</a></li>
+              <li><a href="{$link_href_base}contribute.html">Contribute</a></li>
+              <li><a href="{$link_href_base}docs.html">Docs</a></li>
             </ul>
           </div>
           <div id="search">
@@ -91,8 +92,8 @@
           <div id="contact">
             <h3>Contact</h3>
             <ul>
-              <li><a href="{$href_base}contact.html#mailing-lists">email</a></li>
-              <li><a href="{$href_base}contact.html#irc">irc</a></li>
+              <li><a href="{$link_href_base}contact.html#mailing-lists">email</a></li>
+              <li><a href="{$link_href_base}contact.html#irc">irc</a></li>
             </ul>
           </div>
           <div id="community">
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@
             </div>
           </xsl:if>
           <div id="conduct">
-            Participants in the libvirt project agree to abide by <a href="{$href_base}governance.html#code-of-conduct">the project code of conduct</a>
+            Participants in the libvirt project agree to abide by <a href="{$link_href_base}governance.html#code-of-conduct">the project code of conduct</a>
           </div>
           <br class="clear"/>
         </div>
diff --git a/docs/site.xsl b/docs/site.xsl
index 0c11619fea..c0b56be72f 100644
--- a/docs/site.xsl
+++ b/docs/site.xsl
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
     <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="page">
       <xsl:with-param name="pagesrc" select="$pagesrc"/>
       <xsl:with-param name="timestamp" select="$timestamp"/>
-      <xsl:with-param name="href_base" select="$href_base"/>
+      <xsl:with-param name="link_href_base" select="$href_base"/>
+      <xsl:with-param name="asset_href_base" select="$href_base"/>
     </xsl:apply-templates>
   </xsl:template>
 
