diff --git a/trunk/functions.pl b/trunk/functions.pl
index bae30ae..7f09a72 100644
--- a/trunk/functions.pl
+++ b/trunk/functions.pl
@@ -143,12 +143,10 @@ sub output_page
 
 	my $stylesheet = $xslt->parse_stylesheet($parser->parse_file("$root/xsl/xhtml.xsl"));
 
-	return $session->header(
-			-type=>'text/xml',
-			-charset=>'UTF-8'
-		),
-		$stylesheet->output_string(
-			$stylesheet->transform(
+	#TODO: this usage of libxsl omits the xsl:output definition (no ident of html) but outputs in UTF8
+	#TODO: later versions of XML::LibXSLT (>= 1.62) define output_as_bytes - this is what we want to use
+	#TODO: wait for debian packagers to update to 1.62 or later
+	$foo = $stylesheet->transform(
 				$parser->parse_string(
 					XMLout(
 						$page,
@@ -158,6 +156,11 @@ sub output_page
 						AttrIndent => '1'
 					)
 				)
-			)
-		);
+			);
+	
+	return $session->header(
+			-type=>'text/xml',
+			-charset=>'UTF-8'
+		),
+		$foo->toString;
 }
diff --git a/trunk/upload.pl b/trunk/upload.pl
index a636ab6..74d1f00 100644
--- a/trunk/upload.pl
+++ b/trunk/upload.pl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ require "functions.pl";
 #create or resume session
 CGI::Session->name($session_name);
 $query = new CGI;
-my $session = new CGI::Session;
+$session = new CGI::Session;
 
 @userinfo = get_userinfo_from_sid($session->id);