Issue #15296: Fix minidom.toxml/toprettyxml for non-unicode encodings. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka, with some minor style adjustments by me.
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index ae286b0..a5c6fb2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -147,12 +147,7 @@
the DOM node.
With an explicit *encoding* [1]_ argument, the result is a byte
- string in the specified encoding. It is recommended that you
- always specify an encoding; you may use any encoding you like, but
- an argument of "utf-8" is the most common choice, avoiding
- :exc:`UnicodeError` exceptions in case of unrepresentable text
- data.
-
+ string in the specified encoding.
With no *encoding* argument, the result is a Unicode string, and the
XML declaration in the resulting string does not specify an
encoding. Encoding this string in an encoding other than UTF-8 is