#10781: clarify that *encoding* is not a parameter for Node objects in general.
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index e6f2253..4fb4025 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
... # Work with dom.
-.. method:: Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="", encoding="")
+.. method:: Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="")
Write XML to the writer object. The writer should have a :meth:`write` method
which matches that of the file object interface. The *indent* parameter is the
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@
indentation to use for subnodes of the current one. The *newl* parameter
specifies the string to use to terminate newlines.
- For the :class:`Document` node, an additional keyword argument *encoding* can be
- used to specify the encoding field of the XML header.
+ For the :class:`Document` node, an additional keyword argument *encoding* can
+ be used to specify the encoding field of the XML header.
.. method:: Node.toxml(encoding=None)