The new names are hopefully more descriptive and consistent. If you feel you
don't agree with this change, *please* read issue 17741 first - there's a lot of
discussion in there.

XMLParser configures expat to report attributes in a list (ordered_attributes),
so only _start_list is needed. Rename it to _start and kill _start.

Patch by Stefan Behnel.

Thanks to Stefan Behnel for the report and proposed solution & test.

ModuleNotFoundError.

is imported. Instead, ElementTree.parse can look for a special internal method
defined by the accelerator.

Renaming to _Element_Py for clarity and moving it to a more logical location.
_ElementInterface OTOH is unused and is therefore removed.

Close #17988

Also clean up some code around this

characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods.  Original patch by Sebastian
Ortiz Vasquez.

codecs.open().

Also remove unused macro.

Issue #17741: Add ElementTree.IncrementalParser, an event-driven parser for non-blocking applications.

Based on patch by David Lam

Add test for fragment producing with XMLGenerator.

When _elementtree is imported, iterparse is redefined as a class and the parser
argument was ommitted. Fix this, and add a docstring to the class.

#11379: rephrase minidom documentation to use the term "minimal" instead of "lightweight".  Patch by Éric Araujo.

#11379: rephrase minidom documentation to use the term "minimal" instead of "lightweight".  Patch by Éric Araujo.

Cleanup the docs ElementTree a bit and describe the default_namespace parameter. In the code, replace the old outdated Doxygen-ish comment above ElementTree.write by a proper docstring.

serialization functions - short_empty_elements. It controls how elements
without contents are emitted.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. Feature initially proposed by Ariel Poliak.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Issue #16089: Allow ElementTree.TreeBuilder to work again with a non-Element element_factory (fixes a regression in SimpleTAL).