Commit da4b5b82 authored by Ezio Melotti's avatar Ezio Melotti

#11379: rephrase minidom documentation to use the term "minimal" instead of...

#11379: rephrase minidom documentation to use the term "minimal" instead of "lightweight".  Patch by Éric Araujo.
parent 4b88d6c6
:mod:`xml.dom.minidom` --- Lightweight DOM implementation :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` --- Minimal DOM implementation
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.. module:: xml.dom.minidom .. module:: xml.dom.minidom
:synopsis: Lightweight Document Object Model (DOM) implementation. :synopsis: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation.
.. moduleauthor:: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> .. moduleauthor:: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
.. sectionauthor:: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> .. sectionauthor:: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
.. sectionauthor:: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> .. sectionauthor:: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
...@@ -11,17 +11,11 @@ ...@@ -11,17 +11,11 @@
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:mod:`xml.dom.minidom` is a light-weight implementation of the Document Object :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` is a minimal implementation of the Document Object
Model interface. It is intended to be simpler than the full DOM and also Model interface, with an API similar to that in other languages. It is intended
significantly smaller. to be simpler than the full DOM and also significantly smaller. Users who are
not already proficient with the DOM should consider using the
.. note:: :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module for their XML processing instead
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 DOM applications typically start by parsing some XML into a DOM. With
:mod:`xml.dom.minidom`, this is done through the parse functions:: :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`, this is done through the parse functions::
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"""\ """Simple implementation of the Level 1 DOM.
minidom.py -- a lightweight DOM implementation.
Namespaces and other minor Level 2 features are also supported.
parse("foo.xml") parse("foo.xml")
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