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diff --git a/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst b/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst index 3a3305c..e19a4d5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ The :mod:`xml.parsers.expat` module contains two functions: must be a string naming the encoding used by the XML data. Expat doesn't support as many encodings as Python does, and its repertoire of encodings can't be extended; it supports UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1 (Latin1), and ASCII. If - *encoding* is given it will override the implicit or explicit encoding of the + *encoding* [1]_ is given it will override the implicit or explicit encoding of the document. Expat can optionally do XML namespace processing for you, enabled by providing a @@ -848,3 +848,11 @@ The ``errors`` object has the following attributes: .. data:: XML_ERROR_SUSPEND_PE :noindex: + +.. rubric:: Footnotes + +.. [#] 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 . + |