diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/strip-tags.xml b/reference/strings/functions/strip-tags.xml
index baf67ea427..152d7fc086 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/strip-tags.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/strip-tags.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.strip-tags">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@
      </methodsynopsis>
     <para>
      This function tries to return a string with all HTML and PHP tags
-     stripped from a given <parameter>str</parameter>.  It errors on
-     the side of caution in case of incomplete or bogus tags.  It uses
+     stripped from a given <parameter>str</parameter>.  It uses
      the same tag stripping state machine as the
      <function>fgetss</function> function.
     </para>
@@ -29,6 +28,12 @@
        and PHP 4.0b3. Since PHP 4.3.0, HTML comments are also stripped.
       </para> 
      </note>
+     <warn>
+       <para>
+         Because <function>strip_tags</function> does not actually validate the
+         HTML, partial, or broken tags can result in unwanted results.
+       </para>
+     </warn>
     </para>
     <para>
      <example>