diff --git a/reference/xslt/functions/xslt-setopt.xml b/reference/xslt/functions/xslt-setopt.xml
index 7513d5ec42..b268d9b8dc 100644
--- a/reference/xslt/functions/xslt-setopt.xml
+++ b/reference/xslt/functions/xslt-setopt.xml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ $xh = xslt_create();
 // Tell Sablotron to process public entities
 xslt_setopt($xh, XSLT_SABOPT_PARSE_PUBLIC_ENTITIES);
 
-// Let's also ask him to suppress whitespace stripping
+// Let's also ask it to suppress whitespace stripping
 xslt_setopt($xh, xslt_getopt($xh) | XSLT_SABOPT_DISABLE_STRIPPING);
 
 ?>