diff --git a/doc/reference/cogl/Makefile.am b/doc/reference/cogl/Makefile.am
index c2f075e4d..9888caaa3 100644
--- a/doc/reference/cogl/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/reference/cogl/Makefile.am
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ HTML_IMAGES=
 # Extra SGML files that are included by $(DOC_MAIN_SGML_FILE).
 # e.g. content_files=running.sgml building.sgml changes-2.0.sgml
 content_files = \
-	version.xml \
 	blend-strings.xml
 
 # SGML files where gtk-doc abbrevations (#GtkWidget) are expanded
@@ -94,4 +93,3 @@ include $(top_srcdir)/gtk-doc.make
 
 # Other files to distribute
 # e.g. EXTRA_DIST += version.xml.in
-EXTRA_DIST += version.xml.in
diff --git a/doc/reference/cogl/cogl-docs.xml b/doc/reference/cogl/cogl-docs.xml.in
similarity index 98%
rename from doc/reference/cogl/cogl-docs.xml
rename to doc/reference/cogl/cogl-docs.xml.in
index 87d665f42..7f9c1c26b 100644
--- a/doc/reference/cogl/cogl-docs.xml
+++ b/doc/reference/cogl/cogl-docs.xml.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
                "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" [
-<!ENTITY version SYSTEM "version.xml">
+<!ENTITY version "@VERSION@">
 ]>
 <book id="index" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude">
 
diff --git a/doc/reference/cogl/version.xml.in b/doc/reference/cogl/version.xml.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 7fc1bf340..000000000
--- a/doc/reference/cogl/version.xml.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-@CLUTTER_VERSION@
\ No newline at end of file