diff --git a/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java b/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java
index a41bd8b343..e8af9c6cd7 100644
--- a/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java
+++ b/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2014 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2015 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -19,15 +19,14 @@ package org.springframework.beans.factory.xml;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException;
-import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
 
 /**
  * SPI for parsing an XML document that contains Spring bean definitions.
- * Used by XmlBeanDefinitionReader for actually parsing a DOM document.
+ * Used by {@link XmlBeanDefinitionReader} for actually parsing a DOM document.
  *
- * <p>Instantiated per document to parse: Implementations can hold
+ * <p>Instantiated per document to parse: implementations can hold
  * state in instance variables during the execution of the
- * {@code registerBeanDefinitions} method, for example global
+ * {@code registerBeanDefinitions} method &mdash; for example, global
  * settings that are defined for all bean definitions in the document.
  *
  * @author Juergen Hoeller
diff --git a/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java b/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java
index 9a11d38a4c..494bcd39fd 100644
--- a/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java
+++ b/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2014 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2015 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -32,22 +32,21 @@ import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinitionHolder;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanComponentDefinition;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReaderUtils;
-import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
 import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
 import org.springframework.core.io.support.ResourcePatternUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 
 /**
- * Default implementation of the {@link BeanDefinitionDocumentReader} interface.
- * Reads bean definitions according to the "spring-beans" DTD and XSD format
+ * Default implementation of the {@link BeanDefinitionDocumentReader} interface that
+ * reads bean definitions according to the "spring-beans" DTD and XSD format
  * (Spring's default XML bean definition format).
  *
- * <p>The structure, elements and attribute names of the required XML document
+ * <p>The structure, elements, and attribute names of the required XML document
  * are hard-coded in this class. (Of course a transform could be run if necessary
- * to produce this format). {@code &lt;beans&gt;} doesn't need to be the root
- * element of the XML document: This class will parse all bean definition elements
- * in the XML file, not regarding the actual root element.
+ * to produce this format). {@code <beans>} does not need to be the root
+ * element of the XML document: this class will parse all bean definition elements
+ * in the XML file, regardless of the actual root element.
  *
  * @author Rod Johnson
  * @author Juergen Hoeller