diff --git a/docs/wscript_build b/docs/wscript_build
index dd64aaaef..9951d58fd 100644
--- a/docs/wscript_build
+++ b/docs/wscript_build
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 # (at your option) any later version.
 
-# TODO: we want to build this using xmlto, i.e. doxmlto html-nochunks -m config.xsl pk-reference.xml
-
 import Utils
 
 ## FIXME: shouldn't it be: doc_subdir = os.path.join('doc', Utils.g_module.APPNAME) ?
@@ -20,3 +18,11 @@ install_files('DATADIR', doc_subdir, 'pk-reference.html')
 install_files('DATADIR', doc_subdir, 'pk-structure.png')
 install_files('DATADIR', doc_subdir, 'docbook.css')
 
+# xmlto html-nochunks -m config.xsl pk-reference.xml
+cmd = bld.create_obj('command-output')
+cmd.hidden_outputs = 'pk-reference.html'
+cmd.command = 'xmlto'
+cmd.command_is_external = True
+cmd.argv = ['html-nochunks', '-m', cmd.input_file('config.xsl'),
+            '--searchpath', cmd.input_dir('.'), '-o', cmd.output_dir('.'),
+            cmd.input_file('pk-reference.xml')]