diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html
index b0829d495..e1330705f 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/subant.html
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
         <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign="top" align="left">
           <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">String</font>
         </td>
-        <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign="top" align="left" rowspan="10">
+        <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign="top" align="left" rowspan="9">
           <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Optional</font>
         </td>
     </tr>
@@ -176,18 +176,6 @@
         </td>
     </tr>
     <!-- Attribute -->
-    <tr>
-        <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign="top" align="left">
-          <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">ignoremissingbuildfile</font>
-        </td>
-        <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign="top" align="left">
-          <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Sets whether to continue or fail with a build exception if the build file is missing, false by default.</font>
-        </td>
-        <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign="top" align="left">
-          <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">boolean</font>
-        </td>
-    </tr>
-    <!-- Attribute -->
     <tr>
         <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign="top" align="left">
           <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">inheritall</font>
@@ -299,7 +287,7 @@
         Adds a file 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 file set to the implicit build path.]]></short-description>
 <description>
-            <![CDATA[Adds a file 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 file set to the implicit]]><![CDATA[ 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>]]>
           </description>
 
       </blockquote></td></tr>
@@ -402,7 +390,7 @@
       <tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
           <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif">
                               <a name="examples">
-          <strong>Example</strong></a></font>
+          <strong>Examples</strong></a></font>
       </td></tr>
 
       <tr><td><blockquote>
@@ -437,6 +425,16 @@
             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>
+<pre>
+          &lt;subant target="compile" genericantfile="/opt/project/build1.xml"&gt;
+             &lt;dirset dir="." includes="projects*"/&gt;
+          &lt;/subant&gt;
+        </pre>
+<p>
+            assuming the subdirs of the project dir are called projects1, projects2, projects3
+            this snippet will execute the compile target of /opt/project/build1.xml,
+            setting the basedir to projects1, projects2, projects3
+        </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 f1326c78c..61a14a5c5 100644
--- a/proposal/xdocs/src/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.xml
+++ b/proposal/xdocs/src/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
             </ul>
         </subsection>
      </description>
-    <section anchor="examples" name="Example">
+    <section anchor="examples" name="Examples">
         <pre>
         &lt;project name="subant" default="subant1"&gt;
         &lt;property name="build.dir" value="subant.build"/&gt;
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.java
index d283f1709..d6fede705 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.java
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ public class SubAnt
     private boolean inheritAll = false;
     private boolean inheritRefs = false;
     private boolean failOnError = true;
-    private boolean ignoreMissingBuildFile = false;
     private String output  = null;
 
     private Vector properties = new Vector();
@@ -140,7 +139,6 @@ public class SubAnt
         }
 */
         for (int i=0; i<count; ++i) {
-            boolean doit=true;
             File directory=null;
             File file = new File(filenames[i]);
             if (file.isDirectory()) {
@@ -150,17 +148,9 @@ public class SubAnt
                 }
                 else {
                     file = new File(file, antfile);
-                    boolean fileFound=file.exists();
-                    if(ignoreMissingBuildFile && !fileFound) {
-                        log("Build file '" + file + "' not found.", Project.MSG_INFO);
-                        doit=false;
-                    }
-
                 }
             }
-            if (doit) {
-                execute(file, directory);
-            }
+            execute(file, directory);
         }
     }
 
@@ -237,16 +227,6 @@ public class SubAnt
         this.failOnError = failOnError;
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Sets whether to continue or fail with a build exception if the build
-     * file  is missing, false by default.
-     *
-     * @param  ignoreMissingBuildFile the new value for this boolean flag.
-     */
-    public void setIgnoreMissingBuildFile(boolean ignoreMissingBuildFile) {
-        this.ignoreMissingBuildFile = ignoreMissingBuildFile;
-    }
-
     /**
      * The target to call on the different sub-builds. Set to "" to execute
      * the default target.