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Issue 11379: Remove "lightweight" from minidom description
Patch Set: Created 1 year, 2 months ago
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--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-:mod:`xml.dom.minidom` --- Lightweight DOM implementation
-=========================================================
+:mod:`xml.dom.minidom` --- Minimal DOM implementation
+=====================================================
.. module:: xml.dom.minidom
- :synopsis: Lightweight Document Object Model (DOM) implementation.
+ :synopsis: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation.
.. moduleauthor:: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
.. sectionauthor:: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
.. sectionauthor:: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
@@ -11,17 +11,11 @@
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-:mod:`xml.dom.minidom` is a light-weight implementation of the Document Object
-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.
+:mod:`xml.dom.minidom` is a minimal implementation of the Document Object
+Model interface, with an API similar to that in other languages. It is intended
+to be simpler than the full DOM and also significantly smaller. Users who are
+not already proficient with the DOM should consider using the
+:mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module for their XML processing 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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