diff --git a/components/config/definition.rst b/components/config/definition.rst
index 296fd9197ba..dc0e303bb7f 100644
--- a/components/config/definition.rst
+++ b/components/config/definition.rst
@@ -576,8 +576,8 @@ Otherwise the result is a clean array of configuration values::
     use Symfony\Component\Config\Definition\Processor;
     use Acme\DatabaseConfiguration;
 
-    $config1 = Yaml::parse(__DIR__.'/src/Matthias/config/config.yml');
-    $config2 = Yaml::parse(__DIR__.'/src/Matthias/config/config_extra.yml');
+    $config1 = Yaml::parse(file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/src/Matthias/config/config.yml'));
+    $config2 = Yaml::parse(file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/src/Matthias/config/config_extra.yml'));
 
     $configs = array($config1, $config2);
 
diff --git a/components/config/resources.rst b/components/config/resources.rst
index bcc47aa02e1..a1d46565803 100644
--- a/components/config/resources.rst
+++ b/components/config/resources.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class, which allows for recursively importing other resources::
     {
         public function load($resource, $type = null)
         {
-            $configValues = Yaml::parse($resource);
+            $configValues = Yaml::parse(file_get_contents($resource));
 
             // ... handle the config values