bpo-18911: clarify that the minidom XML writer receives texts but not bytes (GH-13718)
(cherry picked from commit 5ac0b988fd5f1428efe35329c531c7b5c74d37f6)
Co-authored-by: Windson yang <wiwindson@outlook.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index 96080c3..c68b037 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -134,11 +134,12 @@
.. 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
- indentation of the current node. The *addindent* parameter is the incremental
- indentation to use for subnodes of the current one. The *newl* parameter
- specifies the string to use to terminate newlines.
+ Write XML to the writer object. The writer receives texts but not bytes as input,
+ it should have a :meth:`write` method which matches that of the file object
+ interface. The *indent* parameter is the indentation of the current node.
+ The *addindent* parameter is the incremental 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.