Issue #11367: fix documentation of some find* methods in ElementTree

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
index d320711..cf0c33f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -412,26 +412,17 @@ ElementTree Objects
 
    .. method:: find(match)
 
-      Finds the first toplevel element matching *match*.  *match* may be a tag
-      name or path.  Same as getroot().find(match).  Returns the first matching
-      element, or ``None`` if no element was found.
+      Same as :meth:`Element.find`, starting at the root of the tree.
 
 
    .. method:: findall(match)
 
-      Finds all matching subelements, by tag name or path.  Same as
-      getroot().findall(match).  *match* may be a tag name or path.  Returns a
-      list containing all matching elements, in document order.
+      Same as :meth:`Element.findall`, starting at the root of the tree.
 
 
    .. method:: findtext(match, default=None)
 
-      Finds the element text for the first toplevel element with given tag.
-      Same as getroot().findtext(match).  *match* may be a tag name or path.
-      *default* is the value to return if the element was not found.  Returns
-      the text content of the first matching element, or the default value no
-      element was found.  Note that if the element is found, but has no text
-      content, this method returns an empty string.
+      Same as :meth:`Element.findtext`, starting at the root of the tree.
 
 
    .. method:: getiterator(tag=None)