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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst index 30182e4e50..89c660af03 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ instead: .. function:: parseString(string, parser=None) Return a :class:`Document` that represents the *string*. This method creates a - :class:`StringIO` object for the string and passes that on to :func:`parse`. + :class:`io.StringIO` object for the string and passes that on to :func:`parse`. Both functions return a :class:`Document` object representing the content of the document. @@ -149,12 +149,7 @@ module documentation. This section lists the differences between the API and the DOM node. With an explicit *encoding* [1]_ argument, the result is a byte - string in the specified encoding. It is recommended that you - always specify an encoding; you may use any encoding you like, but - an argument of "utf-8" is the most common choice, avoiding - :exc:`UnicodeError` exceptions in case of unrepresentable text - data. - + string in the specified encoding. With no *encoding* argument, the result is a Unicode string, and the XML declaration in the resulting string does not specify an encoding. Encoding this string in an encoding other than UTF-8 is @@ -257,4 +252,4 @@ utility to most DOM users. "UTF8" is not valid in an XML document's declaration, even though Python accepts it as an encoding name. See http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#NT-EncodingDecl - and http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets . + and http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets\ . |