diff --git a/kdl_parser/manifest.xml b/kdl_parser/manifest.xml
index 603b8c9..7ab50a7 100644
--- a/kdl_parser/manifest.xml
+++ b/kdl_parser/manifest.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 <package>
   <description brief="Package to parse urdf in to kdl tree">
 
-   The Kinematics and Dynamics Library (KDL) defines a tree structure to represent the kinematic and dynamic parameters of a robot mechanism. <tt>kdl_parser</tt> provides tools to construct a KDL tree from the robot representation in the <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/urdf">urdf</a> package.
+   The Kinematics and Dynamics Library (KDL) defines a tree structure
+   to represent the kinematic and dynamic parameters of a robot
+   mechanism. <tt>kdl_parser</tt> provides tools to construct a KDL
+   tree from an XML robot representation in either the URDf format or
+   the Collada format.
 
   </description>
-  <author>Wim Meeussen meeussen@willowgarage.com </author>
+  <author>Wim Meeussen wim@willowgarage.com </author>
   <license>BSD</license>
   <review status="Doc reviewed" notes=""/>
   <url>http://ros.org/wiki/kdl_parser</url>