diff --git a/gnu/packages/perl.scm b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
index 90bf7575ba4..1d94e254361 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/perl.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
@@ -600,9 +600,7 @@ requires only 10MB of RAM.")
      (list libxslt))
     (propagated-inputs
      (list perl-class-xsaccessor perl-test-trap))
-    (native-search-paths
-     ;; xsltproc's search paths, to avoid propagating libxslt.
-     (list $XML_CATALOG_FILES))
+    (native-search-paths %libxslt-search-paths)
     (home-page "https://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/docmake/")
     (synopsis "Translate DocBook/XML documentation into other file formats")
     (description
diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
index 3e7a14616f9..7506b3d4e10 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
@@ -367,6 +367,7 @@ formulas and hyperlinks to multiple worksheets in an Excel 2007+ XLSX file.")
            xz))
     (native-inputs
      (list pkg-config))
+    (native-search-paths %libxslt-search-paths)
     (description
      "Libxslt is an XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project.  It is
 based on libxml for XML parsing, tree manipulation and XPath support.")
diff --git a/guix/search-paths.scm b/guix/search-paths.scm
index d325e579896..a935684952b 100644
--- a/guix/search-paths.scm
+++ b/guix/search-paths.scm
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
             $XML_CATALOG_FILES
 
             %gcc-search-paths
+            %libxslt-search-paths
 
             search-path-specification->sexp
             sexp->search-path-specification
@@ -179,6 +180,9 @@
    (file-pattern "^catalog\\.xml$")
    (file-type 'regular)))
 
+(define %libxslt-search-paths
+  (list $SGML_CATALOG_FILES $XML_CATALOG_FILES))
+
 (define (search-path-specification->sexp spec)
   "Return an sexp representing SPEC, a <search-path-specification>.  The sexp
 corresponds to the arguments expected by `set-path-environment-variable'."