diff --git a/reference/pcntl/functions/pcntl-signal.xml b/reference/pcntl/functions/pcntl-signal.xml
index c7c184f6b5..7e283cfd17 100644
--- a/reference/pcntl/functions/pcntl-signal.xml
+++ b/reference/pcntl/functions/pcntl-signal.xml
@@ -165,9 +165,10 @@ pcntl_signal(SIGUSR1, "sig_handler");
 // or use an object, available as of PHP 4.3.0
 // pcntl_signal(SIGUSR1, array($obj, "do_something"));
 
-echo"Generating signal SIGTERM to self...\n";
+echo"Generating signal SIGUSR1 to self...\n";
 
 // send SIGUSR1 to current process id
+// posix_* functions require the posix extension
 posix_kill(posix_getpid(), SIGUSR1);
 
 echo "Done\n";
diff --git a/reference/simplexml/examples.xml b/reference/simplexml/examples.xml
index f830823fe2..6cc9f75b6f 100644
--- a/reference/simplexml/examples.xml
+++ b/reference/simplexml/examples.xml
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ include 'example.php';
 $movies = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
 
 foreach ($movies->xpath('//character') as $character) {
-    echo $character->name, 'played by ', $character->actor, PHP_EOL;
+    echo $character->name, ' played by ', $character->actor, PHP_EOL;
 }
 ?>
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