diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 29cd3824..8442bde3 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,6 @@ Example::
     [u'Hello', u'Parsel']
     >>>
     >>> for e in sel.css('ul > li'):
-            print(e.xpath('.//a/@href')).extract_first()
+            print(e.xpath('.//a/@href').extract_first())
     http://example.com
     http://scrapy.org
diff --git a/docs/usage.rst b/docs/usage.rst
index 94053969..ea6773ce 100644
--- a/docs/usage.rst
+++ b/docs/usage.rst
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ If you want to extract only first matched element, you can call the selector ``.
 
 It returns ``None`` if no element was found::
 
-    >>> selector.xpath('//div/[id="not-exists"]/text()').extract_first() is None
+    >>> selector.xpath('//div[@id="not-exists"]/text()').extract_first() is None
     True
 
 Notice that CSS selectors can select text or attribute nodes using CSS3