diff --git a/tests/data/test1026 b/tests/data/test1026
index 530fc8d0cf1718a42eb13fe428be48480b94c6b6..e47b12a0a6948d2a2f000f4e33feba842561e3a0 100644
--- a/tests/data/test1026
+++ b/tests/data/test1026
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ curl --manual
 # Search for these two sentinel lines in the manual output; if they are found,
 # then chances are good the entire manual is there.
 <postcheck>
-perl -e 'open(IN,$ARGV[0]); my $lines=grep(/(a\s*tool\s*to\s*transfer\s*data)|(mailing\s*lists\s*to\s*discuss\s*curl)/, <IN>); exit ($lines != 2);' log/stdout1026
+perl -e 'open(IN,$ARGV[0]); my $lines=grep(/(a\s*tool\s*to\s*transfer\s*data)|(mailing\s*lists\s*to\s*discuss\s*curl)/, <IN>); exit ($lines != 2); # Let this file pass an XML syntax check: </IN>' log/stdout1026
 </postcheck>
 </client>
 
diff --git a/tests/data/test1027 b/tests/data/test1027
index 57ea87f2a21b816e87eaac468ba0f7ca88a3a6a5..9c3d6e3eaf1e3199d42753a4e5fef3d6be59272d 100644
--- a/tests/data/test1027
+++ b/tests/data/test1027
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ curl --help
 # Search for these two sentinel lines in the help output; if they are found,
 # then chances are good the entire help is there.
 <postcheck>
-perl -e 'open(IN,$ARGV[0]); my $lines=grep(/(Usage: curl )|(--version\s*Show version)/, <IN>); exit ($lines != 2);' log/stdout1027
+perl -e 'open(IN,$ARGV[0]); my $lines=grep(/(Usage: curl )|(--version\s*Show version)/, <IN>); exit ($lines != 2); # Let this file pass an XML syntax check: </IN>' log/stdout1027
 </postcheck>
 </client>
 
diff --git a/tests/data/test1033 b/tests/data/test1033
index 62b03dfb260ba328e08dab831cdc7de40651fa18..9ad5d2526c93a2d0b31c2fd96fdefca7b17e1f2b 100644
--- a/tests/data/test1033
+++ b/tests/data/test1033
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+<testcase>
 #
 # This case with an unexpected 1xx response used to cause a "hang" before the fix
 # got 7.19.0
-<testcase>
 <info>
 <keywords>
 HTTP
diff --git a/tests/data/test12 b/tests/data/test12
index 35413b367f9a64a3cdcd5d60d6aad7893cdaf1b0..95b891aca5c0f909a63dfb489560714d96c8746c 100644
--- a/tests/data/test12
+++ b/tests/data/test12
@@ -6,23 +6,24 @@ HTTP GET
 Content-Range
 </keywords>
 </info>
+
 # Server-side
 <reply>
 <data>
-HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:41:09 GMT
-Server: Apache/1.3.11 (Unix) PHP/3.0.14
-Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:10:00 GMT
-ETag: "21025-dc7-39462498"
-Accept-Ranges: bytes
-Content-Length: 101
-Content-Range: bytes 100-200/3527
-Connection: close
-Content-Type: text/html
-
-ink="#ffffff" vlink="#cccccc">
-<table width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0>
- <tr> 0123456
+HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
+Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:41:09 GMT
+Server: Apache/1.3.11 (Unix) PHP/3.0.14
+Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:10:00 GMT
+ETag: "21025-dc7-39462498"
+Accept-Ranges: bytes
+Content-Length: 101
+Content-Range: bytes 100-200/3527
+Connection: close
+Content-Type: text/html
+
+..partial data returned from the
+server as a result of setting an explicit byte range
+in the request
 </data>
 </reply>
 
diff --git a/tests/data/test60 b/tests/data/test60
index 6f403878c51e134f489dbe3d986c06bf756e076a..dcc192b47f22b76492f76aab1d73be21fb78a447 100644
--- a/tests/data/test60
+++ b/tests/data/test60
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ HTTP PUT
 # Server-side
 <reply>
 <data>
-HTTP/1.0 200 OK swsclose
-Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2010 14:49:00 GMT
-Server: test-server/fake
-
+HTTP/1.0 200 OK swsclose
+Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2010 14:49:00 GMT
+Server: test-server/fake
+
 blablabla
 
 </data>
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ http
 HTTP PUT from stdin with wrong content-length
 </name>
  <command>
-http://%HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT/bzz/60 -T - -H "Content-Length: 1" < log/60.txt
+http://%HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT/bzz/60 -T - -H "Content-Length: 1" <log/60.txt
 </command>
 <file name="log/60.txt">
 more than one byte