diff --git a/Lib/htmllib.py b/Lib/htmllib.py
index 40f6a86469a..94492a6da24 100644
--- a/Lib/htmllib.py
+++ b/Lib/htmllib.py
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
 class HTMLParser(SGMLParser):
     """This is the basic HTML parser class.
 
-    It supports all entity names required by the HTML 2.0 specification
-    RFC 1866.  It also defines handlers for all HTML 2.0 and many HTML 3.0
-    and 3.2 elements.
+    It supports all entity names required by the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation.
+    It also defines handlers for all HTML 2.0 and many HTML 3.0 and 3.2
+    elements.
 
     """