diff --git a/reference/tidy/reference.xml b/reference/tidy/reference.xml
index 8b39e2f0c5..64e7e0337a 100644
--- a/reference/tidy/reference.xml
+++ b/reference/tidy/reference.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
 <!-- Generated by xml_proto.php v2.0. Found in /scripts directory of phpdoc. -->
  <reference id="ref.tidy">
   <title>Tidy Functions</title>
@@ -33,7 +33,42 @@
 
    &reference.tidy.constants;
 
+   <section id="tidy.examples">
+   &reftitle.examples;
+    <para>
+     This simple example shows basic Tidy usage.
+     <example>
+      <title>Basic Tidy usage</title>
+      <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+ob_start();
+?>
+<html>a html document</html>
+<?
+$html = ob_get_clean();
+
+// Specify configuration
+$config = array(
+           'indent'         => true,
+           'output-xhtml'   => true,
+           'wrap'           => 200);
+
+// Tidy
+$tidy = new tidy;
+$tidy->parseString($html, $config, 'utf8');
+$tidy->cleanRepair();
+
+// Output
+echo $tidy;
+?>
+]]>
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
+    </para>
+   </section>
   </partintro>
+
  &reference.tidy.functions;
  </reference>
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