diff --git a/mdx/common-beans.xml b/mdx/common-beans.xml
index fb9a6905..5dfca2f0 100644
--- a/mdx/common-beans.xml
+++ b/mdx/common-beans.xml
@@ -1032,13 +1032,8 @@
         A pipeline stage that removes all XML comments from items.
     -->
     
-    <bean id="stripComments" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-        <property name="XSLResource">
-            <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                <constructor-arg value="strip-comments.xsl"/>
-            </bean>
-        </property>
-    </bean>
+    <bean id="stripComments" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+        p:XSLResource="classpath:strip-comments.xsl"/>
     
     <!--
         everythingSelector
@@ -1075,13 +1070,8 @@
         presented, for example by removing redundant attributes or elements which only have
         meaning when added by the UK federation registrar.
     -->
-    <bean id="cleanImport" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-        <property name="XSLResource">
-            <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                <constructor-arg value="clean-import.xsl"/>
-            </bean>
-        </property>
-    </bean>
+    <bean id="cleanImport" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+        p:XSLResource="classpath:clean-import.xsl"/>
     
     <!--
         trimImportElementWhitespace
diff --git a/mdx/uk/beans.xml b/mdx/uk/beans.xml
index 1dd7e60a..1bd73fa1 100644
--- a/mdx/uk/beans.xml
+++ b/mdx/uk/beans.xml
@@ -143,12 +143,8 @@
         This transform can be run on individual EntityDescriptors or on an
         aggregate EntitiesDescriptor.
     -->
-    <bean id="uk_processScopes" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-        <property name="XSLResource">
-            <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                <constructor-arg value="uk/scopes.xsl"/>
-            </bean>
-        </property>
+    <bean id="uk_processScopes" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+        p:XSLResource="classpath:uk/scopes.xsl">
         <property name="transformParameters">
             <map>
                 <entry key="members" value-ref="uk_members"/>
@@ -197,13 +193,8 @@
         
         Adds "mailto:" to md:EmailAddress elements which don't already have it.
     -->
-    <bean id="uk_fix_mailto" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-        <property name="XSLResource">
-            <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                <constructor-arg value="uk/fix_mailto.xsl"/>
-            </bean>
-        </property>
-    </bean>
+    <bean id="uk_fix_mailto" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+        p:XSLResource="classpath:uk/fix_mailto.xsl"/>
     
     
     <!--
@@ -278,13 +269,8 @@
         
         This stage performs any standard cleanup required for UK federation fragment files.
     -->
-    <bean id="uk_processFragment" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-        <property name="XSLResource">
-            <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                <constructor-arg value="uk/fragment.xsl"/>
-            </bean>
-        </property>
-    </bean>
+    <bean id="uk_processFragment" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+        p:XSLResource="classpath:uk/fragment.xsl"/>
     
     
     <!--
@@ -428,13 +414,8 @@
         
         Strip those UK federation extensions which we never publish.
     -->
-    <bean id="uk_stripExtensions" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-        <property name="XSLResource">
-            <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                <constructor-arg value="uk/strip_extensions.xsl"/>
-            </bean>
-        </property>
-    </bean>
+    <bean id="uk_stripExtensions" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+        p:XSLResource="classpath:uk/strip_extensions.xsl"/>
     
 
     <!--
@@ -523,12 +504,8 @@
         
         Input is an aggregate of all registered entities, output is the HTML statistics.
     -->
-    <bean id="uk_generateStatistics" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-        <property name="XSLResource">
-            <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                <constructor-arg value="uk/statistics.xsl"/>
-            </bean>
-        </property>
+    <bean id="uk_generateStatistics" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+        p:XSLResource="classpath:uk/statistics.xsl">
         <property name="transformParameters">
             <map>
                 <entry key="memberDocument" value-ref="uk_membersDocument"/>
diff --git a/mdx/uk/generate.xml b/mdx/uk/generate.xml
index 8e826937..d02f8190 100644
--- a/mdx/uk/generate.xml
+++ b/mdx/uk/generate.xml
@@ -43,13 +43,8 @@
         Remove entity-level Scope elements, leaving only the ones associated
         with role descriptors.    
     -->
-    <bean id="stripEntityScopes" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-        <property name="XSLResource">
-            <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                <constructor-arg value="uk/entity_scopes.xsl"/>
-            </bean>
-        </property>
-    </bean>
+    <bean id="stripEntityScopes" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+        p:XSLResource="classpath:uk/entity_scopes.xsl"/>
     
     <!--
         finalise_parent
@@ -57,12 +52,8 @@
         Template for a stage used in each output pipeline which performs
         final tweaks on the document.
     -->
-    <bean id="finalise_parent" abstract="true" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-        <property name="XSLResource">
-            <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                <constructor-arg value="uk/final_tweak.xsl"/>
-            </bean>
-        </property>
+    <bean id="finalise_parent" abstract="true" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+        p:XSLResource="classpath:uk/final_tweak.xsl">
         <property name="transformParameters">
             <map>
                 <entry key="publisher" value-ref="uk_federation_uri"/>
@@ -101,13 +92,8 @@
         Patch any @use-less KeyName descriptors in IdP roles
         for the benefit of Shib SPs pre-1.3.1.
     -->
-    <bean id="fixup_keyuse" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-        <property name="XSLResource">
-            <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                <constructor-arg value="uk/fixup_keyuse.xsl"/>
-            </bean>
-        </property>
-    </bean>
+    <bean id="fixup_keyuse" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+        p:XSLResource="classpath:uk/fixup_keyuse.xsl"/>
     
     <!--
         check_fixup_keyuse
diff --git a/mdx/uk/verbs.xml b/mdx/uk/verbs.xml
index ead03397..2396fdd3 100644
--- a/mdx/uk/verbs.xml
+++ b/mdx/uk/verbs.xml
@@ -57,13 +57,8 @@
             <list>
                 <ref bean="uk_registeredEntities"/>
                 <ref bean="assemble"/>
-                <bean id="process" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-                    <property name="xslResource">
-                        <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                            <constructor-arg value="uk/sp_mdui_test.xsl"/>
-                        </bean>
-                    </property>
-                </bean>
+                <bean id="process" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+                    p:XSLResource="classpath:uk/sp_mdui_test.xsl"/>
                 <bean id="serialize" parent="SerializationStage">
                     <property name="outputFile">
                         <bean class="java.io.File">
@@ -239,13 +234,8 @@
                 <ref bean="uk_fix_mailto"/>
                 
                 <!-- transform into a fragment using our local conventions -->
-                <bean id="importTransform" parent="XSLTransformationStage">
-                    <property name="XSLResource">
-                        <bean parent="ClassPathResource">
-                            <constructor-arg value="uk/import.xsl"/>
-                        </bean>
-                    </property>
-                </bean>
+                <bean id="importTransform" parent="XSLTransformationStage"
+                    p:XSLResource="classpath:uk/import.xsl"/>
                 
                 <!-- normalise namespaces in a specific way -->
                 <bean id="normalizeFragment" parent="XSLTransformationStage">