diff --git a/share/sgml/transtable-master.xsl b/share/sgml/transtable-master.xsl
index 0c78fe0721..a68603823a 100644
--- a/share/sgml/transtable-master.xsl
+++ b/share/sgml/transtable-master.xsl
@@ -1,90 +1,81 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
 <!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
 
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
 
   <xsl:import href="./transtable-common.xsl" />
 
   <xsl:output type="xml" encoding="iso-8859-1"
 	      indent="yes"/>
 
   <!-- these params should be externally bound. The values
        here are not used actually -->
   <xsl:param name="transtable-target-element" select="''" />
   <xsl:param name="transtable-word-group" select="''" />
   <xsl:param name="transtable-mode" select="''" />
 
   <xsl:template match="/">
     <xsl:choose>
       <xsl:when test="$transtable-mode = 'sortkey'">
 	<xsl:apply-templates mode="sortkey"/>
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:otherwise>
 	<xsl:apply-templates />
       </xsl:otherwise>
     </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:template>
 
   <xsl:template match="*">
     <xsl:copy>
       <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
       <xsl:apply-templates />
     </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>
 
   <xsl:template match="*[local-name() = $transtable-target-element]">
     <xsl:element name="{local-name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}">
       <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
 
       <xsl:call-template name="transtable-sortkey-lookup">
 	<xsl:with-param name="word" select="." />
 	<xsl:with-param name="word-group" select="$transtable-word-group" />
       </xsl:call-template>
 
       <xsl:call-template name="transtable-lookup">
         <xsl:with-param name="word" select="." />
         <xsl:with-param name="word-group" select="$transtable-word-group" />
       </xsl:call-template>
     </xsl:element>
   </xsl:template>
 
  <!-- mode for generating sortkeytable -->
 
   <xsl:template match="*" mode="sortkey">
     <xsl:apply-templates mode="sortkey"/>
   </xsl:template>
 
   <xsl:template match="text()" mode="sortkey">
   </xsl:template>
 
   <xsl:template match="*[local-name() = $transtable-target-element]" mode="sortkey">
-    <xsl:text>  </xsl:text>
-
-    <xsl:comment>
-      <xsl:call-template name="transtable-lookup">
-	<xsl:with-param name="word" select="." />
-	<xsl:with-param name="word-group" select="$transtable-word-group" />
-      </xsl:call-template>
-    </xsl:comment>
-
     <xsl:element name="word">
       <xsl:attribute name="name">
 	<xsl:call-template name="transtable-lookup">
 	  <xsl:with-param name="word" select="." />
 	<xsl:with-param name="word-group" select="$transtable-word-group" />
 	</xsl:call-template>
       </xsl:attribute>
 
       <xsl:attribute name="orig">
 	<xsl:value-of select="." />
       </xsl:attribute>
 
       <xsl:attribute name="sortkey">
 	<xsl:value-of select="'@sortkey@'" />
       </xsl:attribute>
     </xsl:element>
 
     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&#10;</xsl:text>
 
   </xsl:template>
 </xsl:stylesheet>