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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index 98f8515..eb6372a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -1952,7 +1952,7 @@ The version of the ElementTree library included with Python was updated to version 1.3. Some of the new features are: * The various parsing functions now take a *parser* keyword argument - giving an :class:`XMLParser` instance that will + giving an :class:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser` instance that will be used. This makes it possible to override the file's internal encoding:: p = ET.XMLParser(encoding='utf-8') @@ -1964,8 +1964,8 @@ version 1.3. Some of the new features are: * ElementTree's code for converting trees to a string has been significantly reworked, making it roughly twice as fast in many - cases. The :class:`ElementTree` :meth:`write` and :class:`Element` - :meth:`write` methods now have a *method* parameter that can be + cases. The :meth:`ElementTree.write() <xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write>` + and :meth:`Element.write` methods now have a *method* parameter that can be "xml" (the default), "html", or "text". HTML mode will output empty elements as ``<empty></empty>`` instead of ``<empty/>``, and text mode will skip over elements and only output the text chunks. If @@ -1978,11 +1978,12 @@ version 1.3. Some of the new features are: declarations are now output on the root element, not scattered throughout the resulting XML. You can set the default namespace for a tree by setting the :attr:`default_namespace` attribute and can - register new prefixes with :meth:`register_namespace`. In XML mode, + register new prefixes with :meth:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.register_namespace`. In XML mode, you can use the true/false *xml_declaration* parameter to suppress the XML declaration. -* New :class:`Element` method: :meth:`extend` appends the items from a +* New :class:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.Element` method: + :meth:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.extend` appends the items from a sequence to the element's children. Elements themselves behave like sequences, so it's easy to move children from one element to another:: @@ -1998,13 +1999,15 @@ version 1.3. Some of the new features are: # Outputs <root><item>1</item>...</root> print ET.tostring(new) -* New :class:`Element` method: :meth:`iter` yields the children of the +* New :class:`Element` method: + :meth:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.iter` yields the children of the element as a generator. It's also possible to write ``for child in elem:`` to loop over an element's children. The existing method :meth:`getiterator` is now deprecated, as is :meth:`getchildren` which constructs and returns a list of children. -* New :class:`Element` method: :meth:`itertext` yields all chunks of +* New :class:`Element` method: + :meth:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.itertext` yields all chunks of text that are descendants of the element. For example:: t = ET.XML("""<list> |