Merge branch 'ml/documentation_apostrophe_fix' into dev

* ml/documentation_apostrophe_fix:
  Correct grammatical problems in conjunction with 'its'
  Change all incorrect occurrences of it's to its

OTP-8523 ml/documentation_apostrophe_fix

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml
index 201787f7b5..b52e862a5c 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ latin1, Module, Function, Args} respectively. </p>
   below).</p>
 
   <p>The function will be called with the data the io_server finds on
-  it's device, returning {done, Result, RestChars} when enough data is
+  its device, returning {done, Result, RestChars} when enough data is
   read (in which case Result is sent to the client and RestChars are
   kept in the io_server as a buffer for subsequent input) or {more,
   Continuation}, indicating that more characters are needed to
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ optimize anything however. It is important though that the returned
 data is of the right type depending on the options set, so we convert
 the lists to binaries in the correct encoding <em>if possible</em>
 before returning. The function supplied in the get_until request may,
-as it's final result return anything, so only functions actually
+as its final result return anything, so only functions actually
 returning lists can get them converted to binaries. If the request
 contained the encoding tag unicode, the lists can contain all unicode
 codepoints and the binaries should be in UTF-8, if the encoding tag
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ms_transform.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ms_transform.xml
index 9f178b426c..ba9f89685b 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ms_transform.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ms_transform.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <erlref>
   <header>
     <copyright>
-      <year>2002</year><year>2009</year>
+      <year>2002</year><year>2010</year>
       <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
     </copyright>
     <legalnotice>
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
       compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
       Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
       retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
-    
+
       Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
       basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
       the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
       under the License.
-    
+
     </legalnotice>
 
     <title>ms_transform</title>
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ ets:select(emp_tab, ets:fun2ms(
                       fun(#emp{empno = [$0 | Rest] }) ->
                               {[$0|Rest],[$1|Rest]}
                       end)).    </code>
-    <p>As a matter of fact, this query hit's the feature of partially bound
+    <p>As a matter of fact, this query hits the feature of partially bound
       keys in the table type <c>ordered_set</c>, so that not the whole
       table need be searched, only the part of the table containing keys
       beginning with <c>0</c> is in fact looked into. </p>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
index c5bf10b63d..f1b0659ea2 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ en_US.UTF-8</pre>
 <pre>
 $ echo <input>$LC_CTYPE</input>
 en_US.UTF-8</pre>
-<p>The LANG or LC_CTYPE setting should be consistent with what the terminal is capable of, there is no portable way for Erlang to ask the actual terminal about it's UTF-8 capacity, we have to rely on the language and character type settings.</p>
+<p>The LANG or LC_CTYPE setting should be consistent with what the terminal is capable of, there is no portable way for Erlang to ask the actual terminal about its UTF-8 capacity, we have to rely on the language and character type settings.</p>
 <p>To investigate what Erlang thinks about the terminal, the <c>io:getopts()</c> call can be used when the shell is started:</p>
 <pre>
 $ <input>LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 erl</input>
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ Eshell V5.7  (abort with ^G)
 <tag><c>file</c>, <c>group</c> and <c>user</c></tag>
 <item>
 <p>I/O-servers throughout the system are able both to handle Unicode data and has options for converting data upon actual output or input to/from the device. As shown earlier, the <seealso marker="stdlib:shell">shell</seealso> has support for Unicode terminals and the  <seealso marker="kernel:file">file</seealso> module allows for translation to and from various Unicode formats on disk.</p>
-<p>The actual reading and writing of files with Unicode data is however not best done with the <c>file</c> module as it's interface is byte oriented. A file opened with a Unicode encoding (like UTF-8), is then best read or written using the <seealso marker="stdlib:io">io</seealso> module.</p>
+<p>The actual reading and writing of files with Unicode data is however not best done with the <c>file</c> module as its interface is byte oriented. A file opened with a Unicode encoding (like UTF-8), is then best read or written using the <seealso marker="stdlib:io">io</seealso> module.</p>
 </item>
 <tag><c>re</c></tag>
 <item>