diff --git a/minidom/Cargo.toml b/minidom/Cargo.toml
index 8a1e5ab9..9907d4ea 100644
--- a/minidom/Cargo.toml
+++ b/minidom/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ authors = [
   "Astro <astro@spaceboyz.net>",
   "Maxime “pep” Buquet <pep@bouah.net>",
 ]
-description = "A small, simple DOM implementation on top of quick-xml"
+description = "A small, simple DOM implementation on top of quick-xml, targeting the subset of XML useful for XMPP"
 homepage = "https://gitlab.com/xmpp-rs/xmpp-rs"
 repository = "https://gitlab.com/xmpp-rs/xmpp-rs"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/minidom"
diff --git a/minidom/src/lib.rs b/minidom/src/lib.rs
index 864519b6..6300cc58 100644
--- a/minidom/src/lib.rs
+++ b/minidom/src/lib.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
 
 #![deny(missing_docs)]
 
-//! A minimal DOM crate built on top of quick-xml.
+//! A minimal DOM crate built on top of quick-xml, targeting exclusively the subset of XML useful
+//! for XMPP.
 //!
 //! This library exports an `Element` struct which represents a DOM tree.
 //!