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| author |   Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2012-03-02 07:37:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2012-03-02 07:37:13 +0200 |
| commit | 20293441da3ed1ee8e90de9747594090e27dca0e (patch) | |
| tree | b97da2ee598caf67c25e1db83af5bbe69b649a93 /Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst | |
| parent | Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak containers (WeakSet, WeakKeyDictionary, W... (diff) | |
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Issue #11379: add a note in xml.dom.minidom suggesting to use etree in some cases
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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst index ab5476d91f1..ae286b0ad95 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst @@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ 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:: |