From 504bc4f3b7a17299d864e48a2bc7ef62ce1daf2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Martin=20v=2E=20L=C3=B6wis?= <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:26:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove mentioning of Python 2.0 limitations. Fixes #607783.
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Doc/lib/xmldom.tex | 20 ++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/lib/xmldom.tex b/Doc/lib/xmldom.tex
index b89769d556..bf4edac259 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/xmldom.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/xmldom.tex
@@ -40,20 +40,20 @@ code. The DOM is a standard tree representation for XML data.
The Document Object Model is being defined by the W3C in stages, or
``levels'' in their terminology. The Python mapping of the API is
substantially based on the DOM Level 2 recommendation. Some aspects
-of the API will only become available in Python 2.1, or may only be
-available in particular DOM implementations.
+of the API will only become available in future Python releases, or
+may only be available in particular DOM implementations.
DOM applications typically start by parsing some XML into a DOM. How
this is accomplished is not covered at all by DOM Level 1, and Level 2
-provides only limited improvements. There is a
+provides only limited improvements: There is a
\class{DOMImplementation} object class which provides access to
-\class{Document} creation methods, but these methods were only added
-in DOM Level 2 and were not implemented in time for Python 2.0. There
-is also no well-defined way to access these methods without an
-existing \class{Document} object. For Python 2.0, consult the
-documentation for each particular DOM implementation to determine the
-bootstrap procedure needed to create and initialize \class{Document}
-and \class{DocumentType} instances.
+\class{Document} creation methods, but no way to access an XML
+reader/parser/Document builder in an implementation-independent way.
+There is also no well-defined way to access these methods without an
+existing \class{Document} object. In Python, each DOM implementation
+will provide a function \function{getDOMImplementation}. DOM Level 3
+adds a Load/Store specification, which defines an interface to the
+reader, but this is not implemented in Python.
Once you have a DOM document object, you can access the parts of your
XML document through its properties and methods. These properties are
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