diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-bold-literal.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-bold-literal.xsl
index 608eb5df62..94d6c1b545 100644
--- a/Documentation/manpage-bold-literal.xsl
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-bold-literal.xsl
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 <!-- manpage-bold-literal.xsl:
      special formatting for manpages rendered from asciidoc+docbook -->
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+		xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
 		version="1.0">
 
 <!-- render literal text as bold (instead of plain or monospace);
      this makes literal text easier to distinguish in manpages
      viewed on a tty -->
-<xsl:template match="literal">
+<xsl:template match="literal|d:literal">
 	<xsl:value-of select="$git.docbook.backslash"/>
 	<xsl:text>fB</xsl:text>
 	<xsl:apply-templates/>