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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
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Expand Up @@ -494,10 +494,12 @@ Functions
by the user.


.. function:: fromstring(text)
.. function:: fromstring(text, parser=None)

Parses an XML section from a string constant. Same as :func:`XML`. *text*
is a string containing XML data. Returns an :class:`Element` instance.
is a string containing XML data. *parser* is an optional parser instance.
If not given, the standard :class:`XMLParser` parser is used.
Returns an :class:`Element` instance.


.. function:: fromstringlist(sequence, parser=None)
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