diff --git a/reference/simplexml/examples.xml b/reference/simplexml/examples.xml
index bc3f6b5b6e..f4c6570c98 100644
--- a/reference/simplexml/examples.xml
+++ b/reference/simplexml/examples.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <!-- $Revision$ -->
 
 <chapter xml:id="simplexml.examples" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ blah
 <?php
 libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
 $sxe = simplexml_load_string("<?xml version='1.0'><broken><xml></broken>");
-if (!$sxe) {
+if ($sxe === false) {
     echo "Failed loading XML\n";
     foreach(libxml_get_errors() as $error) {
         echo "\t", $error->message;