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authorEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2012-03-02 05:41:23 (GMT)
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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::