- make sure the methods minidom adds to the basic DOM are attributed

to Node objects in the index (closes SF bug #832251)
- fix a variety of markup nits

Someone should backport this patch to Python 2.3.x.

Doc/lib/xmldomminidom.tex

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ The definition of the DOM API for Python is given as part of the
 differences between the API and \refmodule{xml.dom.minidom}.
 
 
-\begin{methoddesc}{unlink}{}
+\begin{methoddesc}[Node]{unlink}{}
 Break internal references within the DOM so that it will be garbage
 collected on versions of Python without cyclic GC.  Even when cyclic
 GC is available, using this can make large amounts of memory available
@@ -137,25 +137,22 @@ needed is good practice.  This only needs to be called on the
 children of that node.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
-\begin{methoddesc}{writexml}{writer}
+\begin{methoddesc}[Node]{writexml}{writer}
 Write XML to the writer object.  The writer should have a
 \method{write()} method which matches that of the file object
 interface.
 
-\versionadded[To support pretty output, new keyword parameters indent,
-addindent, and newl have been added]{2.1}
+\versionchanged[To support pretty output, new keyword parameters
+\var{indent}, \var{addindent}, and \var{newl} have been added]{2.1}
 
-\versionadded[For the \class{Document} node, an additional keyword
+\versionchanged[For the \class{Document} node, an additional keyword
 argument encoding can be used to specify the encoding field of the XML
 header]{2.3}
-
 \end{methoddesc}
 
-\begin{methoddesc}{toxml}{\optional{encoding}}
+\begin{methoddesc}[Node]{toxml}{\optional{encoding}}
 Return the XML that the DOM represents as a string.
 
-\versionadded[the \var{encoding} argument]{2.3}
-
 With no argument, the XML header does not specify an encoding, and the
 result is Unicode string if the default encoding cannot represent all
 characters in the document. Encoding this string in an encoding other
@@ -168,24 +165,22 @@ always specified. To avoid UnicodeError exceptions in case of
 unrepresentable text data, the encoding argument should be specified
 as "utf-8".
 
+\versionchanged[the \var{encoding} argument was introduced]{2.3}
 \end{methoddesc}
 
-\begin{methoddesc}{toprettyxml}{\optional{indent\optional{, newl}}}
-
+\begin{methoddesc}[Node]{toprettyxml}{\optional{indent\optional{, newl}}}
 Return a pretty-printed version of the document. \var{indent} specifies
 the indentation string and defaults to a tabulator; \var{newl} specifies
 the string emitted at the end of each line and defaults to \\n.
 
 \versionadded{2.1}
-
-\versionadded[the encoding argument; see \method{toxml}]{2.3}
-
+\versionchanged[the encoding argument; see \method{toxml()}]{2.3}
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 The following standard DOM methods have special considerations with
 \refmodule{xml.dom.minidom}:
 
-\begin{methoddesc}{cloneNode}{deep}
+\begin{methoddesc}[Node]{cloneNode}{deep}
 Although this method was present in the version of
 \refmodule{xml.dom.minidom} packaged with Python 2.0, it was seriously
 broken.  This has been corrected for subsequent releases.