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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser.  Among
 Nokogiri's many features is the ability to search documents via XPath
 or CSS3 selectors.
 
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 ## Links
 
 * http://nokogiri.org
@@ -168,6 +169,7 @@ explicitly setting the encoding to EUC-JP on the parser:
   doc = Nokogiri.XML('<foo><bar /></foo>', nil, 'EUC-JP')
 ```
 
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 ## Development
 
 ```bash