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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2004-09-28 18:40:42 (GMT)
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2004-09-28 18:40:42 (GMT)
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minor doc tweaks for writexml
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/xmldomminidom.tex b/Doc/lib/xmldomminidom.tex
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@@ -137,16 +137,20 @@ needed is good practice. This only needs to be called on the
children of that node.
\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{methoddesc}[Node]{writexml}{writer}
+\begin{methoddesc}[Node]{writexml}{writer\optional{,indent=""\optional{,addindent=""\optional{,newl=""}}}}
Write XML to the writer object. The writer should have a
\method{write()} method which matches that of the file object
-interface.
+interface. The \var{indent} parameter is the indentation of the current
+node. The \var{addindent} parameter is the incremental indentation to use
+for subnodes of the current one. The \var{newl} parameter specifies the
+string to use to terminate newlines.
-\versionchanged[To support pretty output, new keyword parameters
-\var{indent}, \var{addindent}, and \var{newl} have been added]{2.1}
+\versionchanged[The optional keyword parameters
+\var{indent}, \var{addindent}, and \var{newl} were added to support pretty
+output]{2.1}
\versionchanged[For the \class{Document} node, an additional keyword
-argument encoding can be used to specify the encoding field of the XML
+argument \var{encoding} can be used to specify the encoding field of the XML
header]{2.3}
\end{methoddesc}