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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst index 00cdacda59..d0b59efb08 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst @@ -885,7 +885,9 @@ XMLParser Objects .. method:: close() - Finishes feeding data to the parser. Returns an element structure. + Finishes feeding data to the parser. Returns the result of calling the + ``close()`` method of the *target* passed during construction; by default, + this is the toplevel document element. .. method:: doctype(name, pubid, system) @@ -899,12 +901,12 @@ XMLParser Objects Feeds data to the parser. *data* is encoded data. -:meth:`XMLParser.feed` calls *target*\'s :meth:`start` method -for each opening tag, its :meth:`end` method for each closing tag, -and data is processed by method :meth:`data`. :meth:`XMLParser.close` -calls *target*\'s method :meth:`close`. -:class:`XMLParser` can be used not only for building a tree structure. -This is an example of counting the maximum depth of an XML file:: + :meth:`XMLParser.feed` calls *target*\'s ``start()`` method + for each opening tag, its ``end()`` method for each closing tag, + and data is processed by method ``data()``. :meth:`XMLParser.close` + calls *target*\'s method ``close()``. + :class:`XMLParser` can be used not only for building a tree structure. + This is an example of counting the maximum depth of an XML file:: >>> from xml.etree.ElementTree import XMLParser >>> class MaxDepth: # The target object of the parser |