diff --git a/src/main/java/sirius/kernel/xml/XMLReader.java b/src/main/java/sirius/kernel/xml/XMLReader.java
index a52e7cd4..f7c29442 100644
--- a/src/main/java/sirius/kernel/xml/XMLReader.java
+++ b/src/main/java/sirius/kernel/xml/XMLReader.java
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@
 import java.util.function.Function;
 
 /**
- * A combination of DOM and SAX parser which permits to parse very large XML files while conveniently handling sub tree
+ * A combination of DOM and SAX parser which permits to parse very large XML files while conveniently handling subtree
  * using a DOM and xpath api.
  * <p>
  * Used SAX to parse a given XML file. A set of {@link NodeHandler} objects can be given, which get notified if
- * a sub-tree below a given tag was parsed. This sub-tree is available as DOM and can conveniently be processed
+ * a subtree below a given tag was parsed. This subtree is available as DOM and can conveniently be processed
  * using xpath.
  */
 public class XMLReader extends DefaultHandler {
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public class XMLReader extends DefaultHandler {
     /**
      * Creates a new XMLReader.
      * <p>
-     * Use {@link #addHandler(String, NodeHandler)} tobind handlers to tags and then call one of the <tt>parse</tt>
+     * Use {@link #addHandler(String, NodeHandler)} to bind handlers to tags and then call one of the <tt>parse</tt>
      * methods to process the XML file.
      * <p>
      * To interrupt processing use {@link TaskContext#cancel()}.
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String name, Attributes a
      * Registers a new handler for a qualified name of a node.
      * <p>
      * Note that this can be either the node name itself or it can be the path to the node separated by
-     * "/". Therefore &lt;foo&gt;&lt;bar&gt; would be matched by <tt>bar</tt> and by <tt>foo/bar</tt>, where
+     * "/". Therefore, &lt;foo&gt;&lt;bar&gt; would be matched by <tt>bar</tt> and by <tt>foo/bar</tt>, where
      * the path always has precedence over the single node name.
      * <p>
      * Handlers are invoked after the complete node was read. Namespaces are ignored for now which eases
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String name, Attributes a
      * could be easily added by replacing String with QName here.
      *
      * @param name    the qualified name of the tag which should be parsed and processed
-     * @param handler the NodeHandler used to process the parsed DOM sub-tree
+     * @param handler the NodeHandler used to process the parsed DOM subtree
      */
     public void addHandler(String name, NodeHandler handler) {
         handlers.put(name, handler);
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ public void parse(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Used to handle the an abort via {@link TaskContext}
+     * Used to handle an abort via {@link TaskContext}
      */
     static class UserInterruptException extends RuntimeException {