diff --git a/src/java.xml/share/classes/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilder.java b/src/java.xml/share/classes/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilder.java
index ee893cb5892ef..f9d5aa9108cdc 100644
--- a/src/java.xml/share/classes/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilder.java
+++ b/src/java.xml/share/classes/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilder.java
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ public Document parse(InputStream is, String systemId)
      * Parse the content of the given URI as an XML document
      * and return a new DOM {@link Document} object.
      * An <code>IllegalArgumentException</code> is thrown if the
-     * URI is <code>null</code> null.
+     * URI is <code>null</code>.
      *
      * @param uri The location of the content to be parsed.
      *
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ public Document parse(String uri)
      * Parse the content of the given file as an XML document
      * and return a new DOM {@link Document} object.
      * An <code>IllegalArgumentException</code> is thrown if the
-     * <code>File</code> is <code>null</code> null.
+     * <code>File</code> is <code>null</code>.
      *
      * @param f The file containing the XML to parse.
      *
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ public Document parse(File f) throws SAXException, IOException {
      * Parse the content of the given input source as an XML document
      * and return a new DOM {@link Document} object.
      * An <code>IllegalArgumentException</code> is thrown if the
-     * <code>InputSource</code> is <code>null</code> null.
+     * <code>InputSource</code> is <code>null</code>.
      *
      * @param is InputSource containing the content to be parsed.
      *