diff --git a/language/types/string.xml b/language/types/string.xml
index bf449a8cb9..941031e600 100644
--- a/language/types/string.xml
+++ b/language/types/string.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
 <sect1 xml:id="language.types.string">
  <title>Strings</title>
 
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ This should print a capital 'A': \x41]]></screen>
     parsing is done</emphasis> inside a nowdoc. The construct is ideal for
     embedding PHP code or other large blocks of text without the need for
     escaping. It shares some features in common with the SGML
-    <literal>&amp;lt;![CDATA[ ]]&amp;gt;</literal> construct, in that it declares a
+    <literal>&lt;![CDATA[ ]]&gt;</literal> construct, in that it declares a
     block of text which is not for parsing.
    </para>