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| author | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2012-03-02 07:45:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2012-03-02 07:45:55 +0200 |
| commit | 2b65408dec44e877c63b73002fb03cef3f999f2c (patch) | |
| tree | 398ed812be5fb1c6a5de7b83fdb0471c686911fe | |
| parent | a15a8d2a0c51d8f6269c843407f70df957454859 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-2b65408dec44e877c63b73002fb03cef3f999f2c.tar.gz | |
Issue #11379: add a note in xml.dom.minidom suggesting to use etree in some cases
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst index 69e9e56a1f..ca19d98abb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst @@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ Model interface. It is intended to be simpler than the full DOM and also significantly smaller. +.. note:: + + The :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` module provides an implementation of the W3C-DOM, + with an API similar to that in other programming languages. Users who are + unfamiliar with the W3C-DOM interface or who would like to write less code + for processing XML files should consider using the + :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module instead. + DOM applications typically start by parsing some XML into a DOM. With :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`, this is done through the parse functions:: |