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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst index 16bb00c1e5..26f1fbe7a1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst @@ -291,7 +291,9 @@ Supported XPath syntax | | current element. For example, ``.//egg`` selects | | | all ``egg`` elements in the entire tree. | +-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ -| ``..`` | Selects the parent element. | +| ``..`` | Selects the parent element. Returns ``None`` if the | +| | path attempts to reach the ancestors of the start | +| | element (the element ``find`` was called on). | +-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ | ``[@attrib]`` | Selects all elements that have the given attribute. | +-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ @@ -431,9 +433,9 @@ Functions Generates a string representation of an XML element, including all subelements. *element* is an :class:`Element` instance. *encoding* [1]_ is the output encoding (default is US-ASCII). Use ``encoding="unicode"`` to - generate a Unicode string. *method* is either ``"xml"``, - ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is ``"xml"``). Returns an (optionally) - encoded string containing the XML data. + generate a Unicode string (otherwise, a bytestring is generated). *method* + is either ``"xml"``, ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is ``"xml"``). + Returns an (optionally) encoded string containing the XML data. .. function:: tostringlist(element, encoding="us-ascii", method="xml") @@ -441,11 +443,11 @@ Functions Generates a string representation of an XML element, including all subelements. *element* is an :class:`Element` instance. *encoding* [1]_ is the output encoding (default is US-ASCII). Use ``encoding="unicode"`` to - generate a Unicode string. *method* is either ``"xml"``, - ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is ``"xml"``). Returns a list of - (optionally) encoded strings containing the XML data. It does not guarantee - any specific sequence, except that ``"".join(tostringlist(element)) == - tostring(element)``. + generate a Unicode string (otherwise, a bytestring is generated). *method* + is either ``"xml"``, ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is ``"xml"``). + Returns a list of (optionally) encoded strings containing the XML data. + It does not guarantee any specific sequence, except that + ``"".join(tostringlist(element)) == tostring(element)``. .. versionadded:: 3.2 @@ -521,7 +523,7 @@ Element Objects .. method:: clear() Resets an element. This function removes all subelements, clears all - attributes, and sets the text and tail attributes to None. + attributes, and sets the text and tail attributes to ``None``. .. method:: get(key, default=None) |