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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2012-10-06 13:49:34 +0200 |
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committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2012-10-06 13:49:34 +0200 |
commit | c795cb5c723f2d9154edd909557a3ed1e1be2638 (patch) | |
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parent | b0df7ce480e6872ad33ca55056ff947df3200824 (diff) | |
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Closes #11710: create "landing pages" (/library/package.html) for those packages that have no documented content themselves, e.g. "urllib" or "http".
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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.rst b/Doc/library/xml.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..21b2e2382f --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/library/xml.rst @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +.. _xml: + +XML Processing Modules +====================== + +Python's interfaces for processing XML are grouped in the ``xml`` package. + +It is important to note that modules in the :mod:`xml` package require that +there be at least one SAX-compliant XML parser available. The Expat parser is +included with Python, so the :mod:`xml.parsers.expat` module will always be +available. + +The documentation for the :mod:`xml.dom` and :mod:`xml.sax` packages are the +definition of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces. + +The XML handling submodules are: + +* :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree`: the ElementTree API, a simple and lightweight + +.. + +* :mod:`xml.dom`: the DOM API definition +* :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`: a lightweight DOM implementation +* :mod:`xml.dom.pulldom`: support for building partial DOM trees + +.. + +* :mod:`xml.sax`: SAX2 base classes and convenience functions +* :mod:`xml.parsers.expat`: the Expat parser binding |