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diff --git a/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst b/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst index 3d88d85..78aa99c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst @@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ The :mod:`xml.parsers.expat` module contains two functions: http://www.python.org/ns/ elem1 elem2 + Due to limitations in the ``Expat`` library used by :mod:`pyexpat`, + the :class:`xmlparser` instance returned can only be used to parse a single + XML document. Call ``ParserCreate`` for each document to provide unique + parser instances. + .. seealso:: @@ -119,7 +124,9 @@ XMLParser Objects Parses the contents of the string *data*, calling the appropriate handler functions to process the parsed data. *isfinal* must be true on the final call - to this method. *data* can be the empty string at any time. + to this method; it allows the parsing of a single file in fragments, + not the submission of multiple files. + *data* can be the empty string at any time. .. method:: xmlparser.ParseFile(file) @@ -861,5 +868,5 @@ The ``errors`` module has the following attributes: .. [#] The encoding string included in XML output should conform to the appropriate standards. For example, "UTF-8" is valid, but "UTF8" is not. See http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#NT-EncodingDecl - and http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets\ . + and http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml. |