Python/XML v0.5 Released

Date:      Mon,  7 Dec 1998 14:33:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Andrew M. Kuchling" <akuchlin@cnri.reston.va.us>
To:        xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject:   Python/XML v0.5 released

Version 0.5 of the Python/XML distribution can be downloaded from:

http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/files/xml-0.5.tgz

The Python/XML distribution contains the basic tools required for processing XML data using the Python programming language, assembled into one easy-to-install package. The distribution includes parsers and standard interfaces such as SAX and DOM, along with various other useful modules. Version 0.5 can be considered a beta release.

Major changes in this version:

The DOM implementation has been extensively modified, and is now much closer to compliance with the DOM Recommendation.
A Unicode type has been added as the subpackage xml.unicode.wstring.
Various subpackages have been upgraded to their most recent versions.

The package currently contains:

XML parsers: Pyexpat (Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius Garshol), xmllib.py (Sjoerd Mullender) using the sgmlop.c accelerator module (Fredrik Lundh).
SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol)
DOM interface (Stefane Fermigier, A.M. Kuchling)
xmlarch.py, for architectural forms processing (Geir Ove Grønmo)
Unicode wide-string module (Martin von Löwis)
Various utility modules and functions (various people)
Documentation and example programs (various people)

The code is being developed bazaar-style by contributors from the Python XML Special Interest Group, so please send comments, questions, or bug reports to xml-sig@python.org.

For general information about Python, see:

http://www.python.org

The Python XML-SIG home page is:

http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/


A.M. Kuchling                   http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/
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