diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html
index c047e12fc..4ae44af77 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
         Adds a directory set to the implicit build path. <p> <em>Note that the directories will be added to the build path in no particular order, so if order is significant, one should use a file list instead!</em>
 <short-description><![CDATA[Adds a directory set to the implicit build path.]]></short-description>
 <description>
-            <![CDATA[Adds a directory set to the implicit build path. <p> <em>Note that the directories will be added to the build path in no particular order, so if order is significant, one should use a file list instead!</em>]]>
+            <![CDATA[Adds a directory set to the implicit build path. <p> <em>Note that the directories will be added to the build path in no particular o]]><![CDATA[rder, so if order is significant, one should use a file list instead!</em>]]>
           </description>
 
       </blockquote></td></tr>
@@ -360,6 +360,21 @@
 <p>
             this snippet build file will run ant in each subdirectory of the project directory,
             where a file called build.xml can be found.
+            The property build.dir will have the value subant1.build in the ant projects called by subant.
+        </p>
+<pre>
+          &lt;subant target=""&gt;
+             &lt;propertyset&gt;
+                  &lt;propertyref prefix="toplevel"/&gt;
+                  &lt;mapper type="glob" from="foo*" to="bar*"/&gt;
+             &lt;/propertyset&gt;
+             &lt;fileset dir="." includes="*/build.xml"/&gt;
+          &lt;/subant&gt;
+        </pre>
+<p>
+            this snippet build file will run ant in each subdirectory of the project directory,
+            where a file called build.xml can be found.
+            All properties whose name starts with "foo" are passed, their names are changed to start with "bar" instead
         </p>
 
       </blockquote></td></tr>
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 29403afaa..5cdf9561a 100644
--- a/proposal/xdocs/src/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.xml
+++ b/proposal/xdocs/src/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,21 @@
         <p>
             this snippet build file will run ant in each subdirectory of the project directory,
             where a file called build.xml can be found.
+            The property build.dir will have the value subant1.build in the ant projects called by subant.
+        </p>
+        <pre>
+          &lt;subant target=""&gt;
+             &lt;propertyset&gt;
+                  &lt;propertyref prefix="toplevel"/&gt;
+                  &lt;mapper type="glob" from="foo*" to="bar*"/&gt;
+             &lt;/propertyset&gt;
+             &lt;fileset dir="." includes="*/build.xml"/&gt;
+          &lt;/subant&gt;
+        </pre>
+        <p>
+            this snippet build file will run ant in each subdirectory of the project directory,
+            where a file called build.xml can be found.
+            All properties whose name starts with &quot;foo&quot; are passed, their names are changed to start with &quot;bar&quot; instead
         </p>
     </section>
 </external>
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