diff --git a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/ResourcesBeanDefinitionParser.java b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/ResourcesBeanDefinitionParser.java
index 8e008ba131c..5254c49d10f 100644
--- a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/ResourcesBeanDefinitionParser.java
+++ b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/ResourcesBeanDefinitionParser.java
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ class ResourcesBeanDefinitionParser implements BeanDefinitionParser {
 			resourceHandlerDef.getPropertyValues().add("cacheSeconds", cacheSeconds);
 		}
 
-		Element cacheControlElement = DomUtils.getChildElementByTagName(element, "cachecontrol");
+		Element cacheControlElement = DomUtils.getChildElementByTagName(element, "cache-control");
 		if (cacheControlElement != null) {
 			CacheControl cacheControl = parseCacheControl(cacheControlElement);
 			resourceHandlerDef.getPropertyValues().add("cacheControl", cacheControl);
diff --git a/spring-webmvc/src/main/resources/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/spring-mvc-4.2.xsd b/spring-webmvc/src/main/resources/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/spring-mvc-4.2.xsd
index b2ecd06d04c..554092bea86 100644
--- a/spring-webmvc/src/main/resources/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/spring-mvc-4.2.xsd
+++ b/spring-webmvc/src/main/resources/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/spring-mvc-4.2.xsd
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@
 		</xsd:attribute>
 	</xsd:complexType>
 
-	<xsd:complexType name="cachecontrol">
+	<xsd:complexType name="cache-control">
 		<xsd:annotation>
 			<xsd:documentation source="org.springframework.web.cache.CacheControl"><![CDATA[
 	Generates "Cache-Control" HTTP response headers.
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@
 		</xsd:annotation>
 		<xsd:complexType>
 			<xsd:sequence>
-				<xsd:element name="cachecontrol" type="cachecontrol" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
+				<xsd:element name="cache-control" type="cache-control" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
 				<xsd:element name="resource-chain" type="resource-chain" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
 			</xsd:sequence>
 			<xsd:attribute name="mapping" use="required" type="xsd:string">
diff --git a/spring-webmvc/src/test/resources/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/mvc-config-resources-chain-no-auto.xml b/spring-webmvc/src/test/resources/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/mvc-config-resources-chain-no-auto.xml
index e48d73ac211..1d25d8b55b9 100644
--- a/spring-webmvc/src/test/resources/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/mvc-config-resources-chain-no-auto.xml
+++ b/spring-webmvc/src/test/resources/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/mvc-config-resources-chain-no-auto.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 		http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">
 
 	<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/, classpath:/META-INF/">
-		<mvc:cachecontrol max-age="3600" s-maxage="1800" cache-public="true"/>
+		<mvc:cache-control max-age="3600" s-maxage="1800" cache-public="true"/>
 		<mvc:resource-chain resource-cache="false" auto-registration="false">
 			<mvc:resolvers>
 				<mvc:version-resolver>
diff --git a/src/asciidoc/web-mvc.adoc b/src/asciidoc/web-mvc.adoc
index 8018636f432..52d65466150 100644
--- a/src/asciidoc/web-mvc.adoc
+++ b/src/asciidoc/web-mvc.adoc
@@ -4222,7 +4222,7 @@ And in XML:
 [subs="verbatim"]
 ----
 	<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/public-resources/">
-		<mvc:cachecontrol max-age="3600" cache-public="true"/>
+		<mvc:cache-control max-age="3600" cache-public="true"/>
 	</mvc:resources>
 ----