Issue #11379: add a note in xml.dom.minidom suggesting to use etree in some cases

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Eli Bendersky 2012-03-02 07:45:55 +02:00
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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::