Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> added the comment: In the tutorial, "The xml.dom and xml.sax packages" should be expanded to "The xml.dom, xml.sax, and xml.etree packages". I suspect that the current line predates the addition of .etree. We try to mostly not give opinion-based recommendations; the docs are for facts. Some people recommend using lxml instead of any of the above ;-). "The documentation for the xml.dom and xml.sax packages are the definition of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces." could be followed by a factual sentence like "xml.etree provides an third alternative." Looking more: the intro to 19.6. xml.dom — The Document Object Model API nicely explains the difference between SAX and DOM processing as sequential versus random access. The intro to 19.13. xml.etree.ElementTree — The ElementTree XML API says nothing about how it compares to the others. Perhaps the sentence should be "xml.etree provides a tree-based interface different from xml.dom." (assuming this is a fact). Make your suggestion. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13275> _______________________________________