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diff --git a/lib/rexml/document.rb b/lib/rexml/document.rb
index 4b73696930..1e18263dda 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/document.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/document.rb
@@ -195,11 +195,8 @@ module REXML
# the absolute *value* of the document -- that is, it leaves the value
# and number of Text nodes in the document unchanged.
# ie_hack::
- # Internet Explorer is the worst piece of crap to have ever been
- # written, with the possible exception of Windows itself. Since IE is
- # unable to parse proper XML, we have to provide a hack to generate XML
- # that IE's limited abilities can handle. This hack inserts a space
- # before the /> on empty tags. Defaults to false
+ # This hack inserts a space before the /> on empty tags to address
+ # a limitation of Internet Explorer. Defaults to false
# encoding::
# Encoding name as String. Change output encoding to specified encoding
# instead of encoding in XML declaration.