diff --git a/reference/xmlwriter/functions/xmlwriter-start-document.xml b/reference/xmlwriter/functions/xmlwriter-start-document.xml
index 5f7cd557a7..496f5a2822 100644
--- a/reference/xmlwriter/functions/xmlwriter-start-document.xml
+++ b/reference/xmlwriter/functions/xmlwriter-start-document.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
 <!-- Generated by xml_proto.php v2.4. Found in /scripts directory of phpdoc. -->
 <refentry id="function.xmlwriter-start-document">
  <refnamediv>
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
      <listitem>
       <para>
        The encoding of the document as part of the XML declaration.
-       &null by default.
+       &null; by default.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>