diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_crawl.tmpl b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_crawl.tmpl
index 9f777b231..7db48095a 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_crawl.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_crawl.tmpl
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ class $classname(CrawlSpider):
     def parse_item(self, response):
         i = ${ProjectName}Item()
         #xs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
-        #i.attribute('site_id', xs.x('//input[@id="sid"]/@value'))
-        #i.attribute('name', xs.x('//div[@id="name"]'))
-        #i.attribute('description', xs.x('//div[@id="description"]'))
+        #i.site_id = xs.x('//input[@id="sid"]/@value').extract()
+        #i.name = xs.x('//div[@id="name"]').extract()
+        #i.description = xs.x('//div[@id="description"]').extract()
         return [i]
 
 SPIDER = $classname()
diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_csvfeed.tmpl b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_csvfeed.tmpl
index 2d6ec5991..1b1e4f7f9 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_csvfeed.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_csvfeed.tmpl
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ class $classname(CSVFeedSpider):
 
     def parse_row(self, response, row):
         i = ${ProjectName}Item()
-        #i.attribute('url', row['url'])
-        #i.attribute('name', row['name'])
-        #i.attribute('description', row['description'])
+        #i.url = row['url']
+        #i.name = row['name']
+        #i.description = row['description']
         return i
 
 SPIDER = $classname()
diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_xmlfeed.tmpl b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_xmlfeed.tmpl
index 395204cf5..e5c774d0b 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_xmlfeed.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/project/module/templates/spider_xmlfeed.tmpl
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ class $classname(XMLFeedSpider):
 
     def parse_item(self, response, xSel):
         i = ${ProjectName}Item()
-        #i.attribute('url', xSel('url'))
-        #i.attribute('name', xSel('name'))
-        #i.attribute('description', xSel('description'))
+        #i.url = xSel('url'.extract()
+        #i.name = xSel('name').extract()
+        #i.description = xSel('description').extract()
         return i
 
 SPIDER = $classname()