From: Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 05:45:55 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Issue #11379: add a note in xml.dom.minidom suggesting to use etree in some cases
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Issue #11379: add a note in xml.dom.minidom suggesting to use etree in some cases
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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index 69e9e56a1f..ca19d98abb 100644
--- 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::