\end{verbatim}
Note that octal escapes are not included. While the parser can
-attempt to determine whether a character is being specified by it's
+attempt to determine whether a character is being specified by its
ordinal value expressed in octal, doing so yields an expression which
is relatively difficult to maintain, as the same syntax is used to
refer to numbered groups.
A \class{NodeList} represents a sequence of nodes. These objects are
used in two ways in the DOM Core recommendation: the
-\class{Element} objects provides one as it's list of child nodes, and
+\class{Element} objects provides one as its list of child nodes, and
the \method{getElementsByTagName()} and
\method{getElementsByTagNameNS()} methods of \class{Node} return
objects with this interface to represent query results.