diff --git a/functions/xml.xml b/functions/xml.xml
index 5e21985f46..155ed13654 100644
--- a/functions/xml.xml
+++ b/functions/xml.xml
@@ -1654,7 +1654,7 @@ $xml_parser->parse("<A ID=\"hallo\">PHP</A>");
       <programlisting>
 $simple = &quot;&lt;para&gt;&lt;note&gt;simple note&lt;/note&gt;&lt;/para&gt;&quot;;
 $p = xml_parser_create();
-xml_parse_into_struct($p,$simple,&amp;$vals,&amp;$index);
+xml_parse_into_struct($p,$simple,$vals,$index);
 xml_parser_free($p);
 echo "Index array\n";
 print_r($index);
@@ -1769,7 +1769,7 @@ function readDatabase($filename) {
     $parser = xml_parser_create();
     xml_parser_set_option($parser,XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING,0);
     xml_parser_set_option($parser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE,1);
-    xml_parse_into_struct($parser,$data,&amp;$values,&amp;$tags);
+    xml_parse_into_struct($parser,$data,$values,$tags);
     xml_parser_free($parser);
 
     // loop through the structures