From 5ac0b988fd5f1428efe35329c531c7b5c74d37f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Windson yang Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 14:33:16 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-18911: clarify that the minidom XML writer receives texts but not bytes (GH-13352) --- Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst index 2423a0c15691f4..8711242d95d741 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst @@ -134,11 +134,12 @@ module documentation. This section lists the differences between the API and .. method:: Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="") - Write XML to the writer object. The writer should have a :meth:`write` method - which matches that of the file object interface. The *indent* parameter is the - indentation of the current node. The *addindent* parameter is the incremental - indentation to use for subnodes of the current one. The *newl* parameter - specifies the string to use to terminate newlines. + Write XML to the writer object. The writer receives texts but not bytes as input, + it should have a :meth:`write` method which matches that of the file object + interface. The *indent* parameter is the indentation of the current node. + The *addindent* parameter is the incremental indentation to use for subnodes + of the current one. The *newl* parameter specifies the string to use to + terminate newlines. For the :class:`Document` node, an additional keyword argument *encoding* can be used to specify the encoding field of the XML header.