diff --git a/dev-perl/html_parser/html_parser-3.70.recipe b/dev-perl/html_parser/html_parser-3.70.recipe
index 467457f6b..d6cff8476 100644
--- a/dev-perl/html_parser/html_parser-3.70.recipe
+++ b/dev-perl/html_parser/html_parser-3.70.recipe
@@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ INSTALL() {
 }
 
 DESCRIPTION="
-The HTML-Parser distribution is is a collection of perl modules that parse
-and extract information from HTML documents.
-	"
+The HTML-Parser distribution is is a collection of perl modules that parse and \
+extract information from HTML documents.
+"
diff --git a/dev-perl/xml_parser/xml_parser-2.36.recipe b/dev-perl/xml_parser/xml_parser-2.36.recipe
index 9c02605e4..3bbd70cec 100644
--- a/dev-perl/xml_parser/xml_parser-2.36.recipe
+++ b/dev-perl/xml_parser/xml_parser-2.36.recipe
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-SUMMARY="XML-Parser - A perl module for parsing XML documents"
-DESCRIPTION="XML-Parser - A perl module for parsing XML documents"
+SUMMARY="A perl module for parsing XML documents"
+DESCRIPTION="
+XML-Parser - A perl module for parsing XML documents.
+"
 HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~msergeant/XML-Parser-2.36/"
 SRC_URI="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-2.36.tar.gz"
 REVISION="1"