diff --git a/xdoc/plugin.jelly b/xdoc/plugin.jelly
index 3ddabd07..3209aed0 100644
--- a/xdoc/plugin.jelly
+++ b/xdoc/plugin.jelly
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@
             stylesheet="${plugin.resources}/sitemap.jsl"
             encoding="${maven.docs.outputencoding}"
             outputMode="xml"
-            prettyPrint="true" />
+            prettyPrint="false" />
       </util:available>
 
   </goal>
diff --git a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/sitemap.jsl b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/sitemap.jsl
index 1c72f1d1..9fa1db1a 100644
--- a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/sitemap.jsl
+++ b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/sitemap.jsl
@@ -81,10 +81,11 @@
       <util:available file="${maven.docs.src}/${xml_link}">
         <util:file var="xmlfile" name="${maven.docs.src}/${xml_link}"/>
         <x:parse var="inputdoc" xml="${xmlfile}"/>
-        <x:set
-          var="description"
-          select="$inputdoc//meta[@name = 'description']/@content"
-          asString="true"/>
+        <x:if select="$inputdoc//meta[@name = 'description']/@content">
+          <j:set var="description">
+            [<x:expr select="string($inputdoc//meta[@name = 'description']/@content)"/>]
+          </j:set>
+        </x:if>
       </util:available>
       <j:set var="collapse"><x:expr select="@collapse"/></j:set>
       <j:choose>