diff --git a/reference/msql/reference.xml b/reference/msql/reference.xml
index 681a87ae65..b72902b2a9 100644
--- a/reference/msql/reference.xml
+++ b/reference/msql/reference.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
  <reference id="ref.msql">
   <title>mSQL Functions</title>
   <titleabbrev>mSQL</titleabbrev>
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 $link = msql_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password')
     or die('Could not connect : ' . msql_error($link));
 
-msql_select_db('database')
-    or die('Could not select database', $link);
+msql_select_db('database', $link)
+    or die('Could not select database');
 
 /* Issue SQL query */
 $query = 'SELECT * FROM my_table';
diff --git a/reference/sesam/functions/sesam-query.xml b/reference/sesam/functions/sesam-query.xml
index 3db87f2b6e..a20b3c6b43 100644
--- a/reference/sesam/functions/sesam-query.xml
+++ b/reference/sesam/functions/sesam-query.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/sesam.xml, last change in rev 1.1 -->
   <refentry id="function.sesam-query">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ if (!sesam_connect("phonedb", "demo", "otto"))
 $result = sesam_query("select * from phone");
 if (!$result) {
     $err = sesam_diagnostic();
-    die $err["errmsg"]);
+    die ($err["errmsg"]);
 }
 echo "<table border>\n";
 // Add title header with column names above the result:
diff --git a/reference/xslt/functions/xslt-process.xml b/reference/xslt/functions/xslt-process.xml
index df34d48c85..b9f8832f54 100644
--- a/reference/xslt/functions/xslt-process.xml
+++ b/reference/xslt/functions/xslt-process.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.14 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.15 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/xslt.xml, last change in rev 1.3 -->
   <refentry id="function.xslt-process">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ if ($result) {
     echo "</pre>\n";
 } else {
     echo "Sorry, sample.xml could not be transformed by sample.xsl into";
-    echo "  the \$result variable the reason is that " . xslt_error($xh) . 
+    echo "  the \$result variable the reason is that " . xslt_error($xh);
     echo " and the error code is " . xslt_errno($xh);
 }
 xslt_free($xh);