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 The etree package is a lightweight, pure go package that expresses XML in
 the form of an element tree.  Its design was inspired by the Python
 [ElementTree](http://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html)
-module. Some of the package's features include:
+module.
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+Some of the package's capabilities and features:
 
 * Represents XML documents as trees of elements for easy traversal.
 * Imports, serializes, modifies or creates XML documents from scratch.