diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
index 3263dc2a028..f09934bbe08 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -284,6 +284,71 @@ sub-elements for a given element::
>>> ET.dump(a)
+Parsing XML with Namespaces
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If the XML input has `namespaces
+`__, tags and attributes
+with prefixes in the form ``prefix:sometag`` get expanded to
+``{uri}tag`` where the *prefix* is replaced by the full *URI*. Also,
+if there is a `default namespace
+`__,
+that full URI gets prepended to all of the non-prefixed tags.
+
+Here is an XML example that incorporates two namespaces, one with the
+prefix "fictional" and the other serving as the default namespace:
+
+.. code-block:: xml
+
+
+
+
+ John Cleese
+ Lancelot
+ Archie Leach
+
+
+ Eric Idle
+ Sir Robin
+ Gunther
+ Commander Clement
+
+
+
+One way to search and explore this XML example is to manually add the
+URI to every tag or attribute in the xpath of a *find()* or *findall()*::
+
+ root = from_string(xml_text)
+ for actor in root.findall('{http://people.example.com}actor'):
+ name = actor.find('{http://people.example.com}name')
+ print(name.text)
+ for char in actor.findall('{http://characters.example.com}character'):
+ print(' |-->', char.text)
+
+Another way to search the namespaced XML example is to create a
+dictionary with your own prefixes and use those in the search::
+
+ ns = {'real_person': 'http://people.example.com',
+ 'role': 'http://characters.example.com'}
+
+ for actor in root.findall('real_person:actor', ns):
+ name = actor.find('real_person:name', ns)
+ print(name.text)
+ for char in actor.findall('role:character', ns):
+ print(' |-->', char.text)
+
+These two approaches both output::
+
+ John Cleese
+ |--> Lancelot
+ |--> Archie Leach
+ Eric Idle
+ |--> Sir Robin
+ |--> Gunther
+ |--> Commander Clement
+
+
Additional resources
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -366,6 +431,9 @@ Supported XPath syntax
| ``[tag]`` | Selects all elements that have a child named |
| | ``tag``. Only immediate children are supported. |
+-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| ``[tag=text]`` | Selects all elements that have a child named |
+| | ``tag`` that includes the given ``text``. |
++-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| ``[position]`` | Selects all elements that are located at the given |
| | position. The position can be either an integer |
| | (1 is the first position), the expression ``last()`` |