diff --git a/pages/common/xml-escape.md b/pages/common/xml-escape.md
index 90ba205ab8..7d80f61ea1 100644
--- a/pages/common/xml-escape.md
+++ b/pages/common/xml-escape.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # xml escape
 
-> Escape special XML characters, e.g. `<a1>` -> `&lt;a1&gt;`.
+> Escape special XML characters, e.g. `<a1>` → `&lt;a1&gt;`.
 > More information: <http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/doc/xmlstarlet.pdf>.
 
 - Escape special XML characters in a string:
diff --git a/pages/common/xml-format.md b/pages/common/xml-format.md
index 4b2f67a702..9ff6b7f42a 100644
--- a/pages/common/xml-format.md
+++ b/pages/common/xml-format.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 `xml format --recover --noindent {{path/to/malformed.xml|URI}} > {{path/to/recovered.xml}}`
 
-- Format an XML document from stdin, removing the DOCTYPE declaration:
+- Format an XML document from stdin, removing the `DOCTYPE` declaration:
 
 `cat {{path\to\input.xml}} | xml format --dropdtd > {{path/to/output.xml}}`
 
diff --git a/pages/common/xml-unescape.md b/pages/common/xml-unescape.md
index 8ca86dbe4b..c4b8bf61d7 100644
--- a/pages/common/xml-unescape.md
+++ b/pages/common/xml-unescape.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # xml unescape
 
-> Unescape special XML characters, e.g. `&lt;a1&gt;` -> `<a1>`.
+> Unescape special XML characters, e.g. `&lt;a1&gt;` → `<a1>`.
 > More information: <http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/docs.php>.
 
 - Unescape special XML characters from a string: