diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html
index b595d54e0..c047e12fc 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html
@@ -349,11 +349,11 @@
         <project name="subant" default="subant1">
         <property name="build.dir" value="subant.build"/>
         <target name="subant1">
-              <subant failonerror="false" target="">
-                  <property name="build.dir" value="subant1.build"/>
-                  <property name="not.overloaded" value="not.overloaded"/>
-                  <dirset dir="." includes="*"/>
-              </subant>
+            <subant target="">
+              <property name="build.dir" value="subant1.build"/>
+              <property name="not.overloaded" value="not.overloaded"/>
+              <fileset dir="." includes="*/build.xml"/>
+            </subant>
         </target>
         </project>
         </pre>
diff --git a/proposal/xdocs/src/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.xml b/proposal/xdocs/src/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.xml
index dd511c3b4..29403afaa 100644
--- a/proposal/xdocs/src/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.xml
+++ b/proposal/xdocs/src/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.xml
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@
         &lt;project name="subant" default="subant1"&gt;
         &lt;property name="build.dir" value="subant.build"/&gt;
         &lt;target name="subant1"&gt;
-              &lt;subant failonerror="false" target=""&gt;
-                  &lt;property name="build.dir" value="subant1.build"/&gt;
-                  &lt;property name="not.overloaded" value="not.overloaded"/&gt;
-                  &lt;dirset dir="." includes="*"/&gt;
-              &lt;/subant&gt;
+            &lt;subant target=""&gt;
+              &lt;property name="build.dir" value="subant1.build"/&gt;
+              &lt;property name="not.overloaded" value="not.overloaded"/&gt;
+              &lt;fileset dir="." includes="*/build.xml"/&gt;
+            &lt;/subant&gt;
         &lt;/target&gt;
         &lt;/project&gt;
         </pre>