diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 4e45aec10..07f089330 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Changes from Ant 1.9.0 TO current
+===================================
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * Corrected XSLTC error in <junitreport>.
+   Bugzilla Report 54641.
+
 Changes from Ant 1.8.4 TO Ant 1.9.0
 ===================================
 
diff --git a/src/etc/junit-frames-xalan1.xsl b/src/etc/junit-frames-xalan1.xsl
index 9a017b969..ff2c468c6 100644
--- a/src/etc/junit-frames-xalan1.xsl
+++ b/src/etc/junit-frames-xalan1.xsl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
     xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"
     xmlns:redirect="org.apache.xalan.lib.Redirect"
-    xmlns:stringutils="xalan://org.apache.tools.ant.util.StringUtils"
+    xmlns:string="xalan://java.lang.String"
     extension-element-prefixes="redirect">
 <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/>
 <xsl:decimal-format decimal-separator="." grouping-separator=","/>
@@ -705,10 +705,10 @@ h6 {
 
 <xsl:template name="JS-escape">
     <xsl:param name="string"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp1" select="stringutils:replace(string($string),'\','\\')"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp2" select="stringutils:replace(string($tmp1),&quot;'&quot;,&quot;\&apos;&quot;)"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp3" select="stringutils:replace(string($tmp2),&quot;&#10;&quot;,'\n')"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp4" select="stringutils:replace(string($tmp3),&quot;&#13;&quot;,'\r')"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp1" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($string)),'\\','\\\\')"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp2" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($tmp1)),&quot;'&quot;,&quot;\\&apos;&quot;)"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp3" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($tmp2)),&quot;&#10;&quot;,'\\n')"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp4" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($tmp3)),&quot;&#13;&quot;,'\\r')"/>
     <xsl:value-of select="$tmp4"/>
 </xsl:template>
 
diff --git a/src/etc/junit-frames.xsl b/src/etc/junit-frames.xsl
index d5d248f0f..cd3334ac9 100644
--- a/src/etc/junit-frames.xsl
+++ b/src/etc/junit-frames.xsl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
     xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"
     xmlns:redirect="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/redirect"
-    xmlns:stringutils="xalan://org.apache.tools.ant.util.StringUtils"
+    xmlns:string="xalan://java.lang.String"
     extension-element-prefixes="redirect">
 <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/>
 <xsl:decimal-format decimal-separator="." grouping-separator=","/>
@@ -864,10 +864,10 @@ h6 {
 
 <xsl:template name="JS-escape">
     <xsl:param name="string"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp1" select="stringutils:replace(string($string),'\','\\')"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp2" select="stringutils:replace(string($tmp1),&quot;'&quot;,&quot;\&apos;&quot;)"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp3" select="stringutils:replace(string($tmp2),&quot;&#10;&quot;,'\n')"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp4" select="stringutils:replace(string($tmp3),&quot;&#13;&quot;,'\r')"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp1" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($string)),'\\','\\\\')"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp2" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($tmp1)),&quot;'&quot;,&quot;\\&apos;&quot;)"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp3" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($tmp2)),&quot;&#10;&quot;,'\\n')"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp4" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($tmp3)),&quot;&#13;&quot;,'\\r')"/>
     <xsl:value-of select="$tmp4"/>
 </xsl:template>
 
diff --git a/src/etc/junit-noframes.xsl b/src/etc/junit-noframes.xsl
index 203671f9c..dae620a58 100644
--- a/src/etc/junit-noframes.xsl
+++ b/src/etc/junit-noframes.xsl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
         xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"
-        xmlns:stringutils="xalan://org.apache.tools.ant.util.StringUtils">
+        xmlns:string="xalan://java.lang.String">
 <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"
   doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" />
 <xsl:decimal-format decimal-separator="." grouping-separator="," />
@@ -439,10 +439,10 @@
 
 <xsl:template name="JS-escape">
     <xsl:param name="string"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp1" select="stringutils:replace(string($string),'\','\\')"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp2" select="stringutils:replace(string($tmp1),&quot;'&quot;,&quot;\&apos;&quot;)"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp3" select="stringutils:replace(string($tmp2),&quot;&#10;&quot;,'\n')"/>
-    <xsl:param name="tmp4" select="stringutils:replace(string($tmp3),&quot;&#13;&quot;,'\r')"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp1" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($string)),'\\','\\\\')"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp2" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($tmp1)),&quot;'&quot;,&quot;\\&apos;&quot;)"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp3" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($tmp2)),&quot;&#10;&quot;,'\\n')"/>
+    <xsl:param name="tmp4" select="string:replaceAll(string:new(string($tmp3)),&quot;&#13;&quot;,'\\r')"/>
     <xsl:value-of select="$tmp4"/>
 </xsl:template>