diff --git a/pmd/project.xml b/pmd/project.xml
index 0ce07679d5..29bfb069ec 100644
--- a/pmd/project.xml
+++ b/pmd/project.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ in the code. Currently, PMD supports:
- Unused local variables
- Unnecessary object creation
- - Unecessary object creation
+ - Empty catch blocks
+ - Empty if statements
For example, here are the problems PMD found in the JDK 1.4 source code
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