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  r82629 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-07 20:51:43 +0200 (Mi, 07 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Make comment out of an awkward note.
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  r82632 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-07 21:04:36 +0200 (Mi, 07 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Turn more notes into comments.
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  r82724 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-09 09:33:15 +0200 (Fr, 09 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  2.7 is now stable.
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  r82757 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 10:58:37 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r82758 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 12:23:40 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Emphasize role of count for Pascal string.
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  r82760 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 12:39:57 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #3214: improve description of duck-typing in glossary.
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  r82761 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 13:40:13 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #1434090: properly append child in expatbuilder doctype handler.
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  r82762 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 13:51:06 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #8338: fix outdated class name.
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  r82763 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 14:01:34 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #8456: fix signature of sqlite3.connect().
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  r82798 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:23:11 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #6774: explain shutdown() behavior varying with platform.
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  r82799 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:26:57 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r82801 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:33:39 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #9184: fix default value for "buffering" param of open().
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diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py b/Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py
index a5354b9..a98fe03 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
         doctype = self.document.implementation.createDocumentType(
             doctypeName, publicId, systemId)
         doctype.ownerDocument = self.document
-        self.document.childNodes.append(doctype)
+        _append_child(self.document, doctype)
         self.document.doctype = doctype
         if self._filter and self._filter.acceptNode(doctype) == FILTER_REJECT:
             self.document.doctype = None