[Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Issue #11379: add a note in xml.dom.minidom suggesting to use etree in some

[eli.bendersky]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ccd16ad37544
changeset:   75368:ccd16ad37544
branch:      2.7
parent:      75360:d2cf730de195
user:        Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com>
date:        Fri Mar 02 07:45:55 2012 +0200
summary:
  Issue #11379: add a note in xml.dom.minidom suggesting to use etree in some cases

files:
  Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst |  8 ++++++++
  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
--- 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::
 

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