diff --git a/expat/doc/reference.html b/expat/doc/reference.html
index 26db5a63..17af6e74 100644
--- a/expat/doc/reference.html
+++ b/expat/doc/reference.html
@@ -1808,10 +1808,11 @@ struct XML_cp {
 </pre>
 <p>Sets a handler for element declarations in a DTD. The handler gets
 called with the name of the element in the declaration and a pointer
-to a structure that contains the element model. It is the
-application's responsibility to free this data structure using
-<code><a href="#XML_FreeContentModel"
->XML_FreeContentModel</a></code>.</p>
+to a structure that contains the element model. It's the user code's 
+responsibility to free model when finished with it. See <code>
+<a href="#XML_FreeContentModel">XML_FreeContentModel</a></code>.
+There is no need to free the model from the handler, it can be kept
+around and freed at a later stage.</p>
 
 <p>The <code>model</code> argument is the root of a tree of
 <code>XML_Content</code> nodes. If <code>type</code> equals
diff --git a/expat/lib/expat.h b/expat/lib/expat.h
index 46a0e1bc..c92f017c 100644
--- a/expat/lib/expat.h
+++ b/expat/lib/expat.h
@@ -174,8 +174,10 @@ struct XML_cp {
 };
 
 /* This is called for an element declaration. See above for
-   description of the model argument. It's the caller's responsibility
-   to free model when finished with it.
+   description of the model argument. It's the user code's responsibility
+   to free model when finished with it. See XML_FreeContentModel.
+   There is no need to free the model from the handler, it can be kept
+   around and freed at a later stage.
 */
 typedef void(XMLCALL *XML_ElementDeclHandler)(void *userData,
                                               const XML_Char *name,