diff --git a/xep-0004.xml b/xep-0004.xml
index 795d3b7b..f1760675 100644
--- a/xep-0004.xml
+++ b/xep-0004.xml
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td>submit</td>
-        <td>The form-submitting entity is submitting data to the form-processing entity. The submission MAY include fields that were not provided in the empty form, but the form-processing entity MUST ignore any fields that it does not understand. Furthermore, the submission MAY omit fields not marked with &gt;required/&lt; by the form-processing entity.</td>
+        <td>The form-submitting entity is submitting data to the form-processing entity. The submission MAY include fields that were not provided in the empty form, but the form-processing entity MUST ignore any fields that it does not understand. Furthermore, the submission MAY omit fields not marked with &lt;required/&gt; by the form-processing entity.</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td>cancel</td>