diff --git a/solr/example/solr/conf/xslt/example_rss.xsl b/solr/example/solr/conf/xslt/example_rss.xsl
index c1e992e2b19..2857f11748d 100644
--- a/solr/example/solr/conf/xslt/example_rss.xsl
+++ b/solr/example/solr/conf/xslt/example_rss.xsl
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
   <xsl:output
        method="xml"
        encoding="utf-8"
-       media-type="text/xml"
+       media-type="application/xml"
   />
   <xsl:template match='/'>
     <rss version="2.0">