diff --git a/contrib/lisp/org-e-html.el b/contrib/lisp/org-e-html.el
index fd5d97af9..87741b0f8 100644
--- a/contrib/lisp/org-e-html.el
+++ b/contrib/lisp/org-e-html.el
@@ -2800,7 +2800,7 @@ contextual information."
 (defun org-e-html-final-function (contents backend info)
   (if (not org-e-html-pretty-output) contents
     (with-temp-buffer
-      (nxml-mode)
+      (html-mode)
       (insert contents)
       (indent-region (point-min) (point-max))
       (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)))))
diff --git a/lisp/org-publish.el b/lisp/org-publish.el
index e78e2d4ab..346bf4fc0 100644
--- a/lisp/org-publish.el
+++ b/lisp/org-publish.el
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ function can still decide about that independently."
   "Update publishing timestamp for file FILENAME.
 If there is no timestamp, create one."
   (let ((key (org-publish-timestamp-filename filename pub-dir pub-func))
-	(stamp (org-publish-cache-ctime-of-src filename base-dir)))
+	(stamp (org-publish-cache-ctime-of-src filename)))
     (org-publish-cache-set key stamp)))
 
 (defun org-publish-remove-all-timestamps ()
@@ -1128,12 +1128,12 @@ so that the file including them will be republished as well."
 	(while (re-search-forward "^#\\+include:[ \t]+\"\\([^\t\n\r\"]*\\)\"[ \t]*.*$" nil t)
 	  (let* ((included-file (expand-file-name (match-string 1))))
 	    (add-to-list 'included-files-ctime
-			 (org-publish-cache-ctime-of-src included-file base-dir) t))))
+			 (org-publish-cache-ctime-of-src included-file) t))))
       ;; FIXME don't kill current buffer
       (unless visiting (kill-buffer buf)))
     (if (null pstamp)
 	t
-      (let ((ctime (org-publish-cache-ctime-of-src filename base-dir)))
+      (let ((ctime (org-publish-cache-ctime-of-src filename)))
 	(or (< pstamp ctime)
 	    (when included-files-ctime
 	      (not (null (delq nil (mapcar (lambda(ct) (< ctime ct))
@@ -1188,10 +1188,11 @@ Returns value on success, else nil."
       (error "`org-publish-cache-set' called, but no cache present"))
   (puthash key value org-publish-cache))
 
-(defun org-publish-cache-ctime-of-src (f base-dir)
-  "Get the FILENAME ctime as an integer."
+(defun org-publish-cache-ctime-of-src (file)
+  "Get the ctime of filename F as an integer."
   (let ((attr (file-attributes
-	       (expand-file-name (or (file-symlink-p f) f) base-dir))))
+	       (expand-file-name (or (file-symlink-p file) file)
+				 (file-name-directory file)))))
     (+ (lsh (car (nth 5 attr)) 16)
        (cadr (nth 5 attr)))))