diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst index e5919029c62c93..4c1e7bd7e6734a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ Functions `C14N 2.0 `_ transformation function. Canonicalization is a way to normalise XML output in a way that allows - byte-by-byte comparisons and digital signatures. It reduced the freedom + byte-by-byte comparisons and digital signatures. It reduces the freedom that XML serializers have and instead generates a more constrained XML representation. The main restrictions regard the placement of namespace declarations, the ordering of attributes, and ignorable whitespace.