diff --git a/src/xml/dom/qdom.cpp b/src/xml/dom/qdom.cpp
index c191a2f27c..486894019c 100644
--- a/src/xml/dom/qdom.cpp
+++ b/src/xml/dom/qdom.cpp
@@ -6117,9 +6117,7 @@ bool QDomDocument::setContent(const QString& text, bool namespaceProcessing, QSt
     empty string if the element or attribute has no prefix.
 
     Text nodes consisting only of whitespace are stripped and won't
-    appear in the QDomDocument. If this behavior is not desired,
-    one can use the setContent() overload that allows a QXmlReader to be
-    supplied.
+    appear in the QDomDocument.
 
     If \a namespaceProcessing is false, the functions
     QDomNode::prefix(), QDomNode::localName() and