diff --git a/debian/templates/marc21-retrieval-info-auth-dom.xml b/debian/templates/marc21-retrieval-info-auth-dom.xml
index 7e45f3873c..e2b608c320 100644
--- a/debian/templates/marc21-retrieval-info-auth-dom.xml
+++ b/debian/templates/marc21-retrieval-info-auth-dom.xml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
             outputcharset="utf-8"/>
     </backend>
   </retrieval>
+  <retrieval syntax="xml"/>
   <retrieval syntax="xml" name="index"/> <!-- allow viewing index entries -->
   <retrieval syntax="xml" name="marc"
              identifier="info:srw/schema/1/marcxml-v1.1"/>