Hi all, I am pleased to announce the release of bridge 0.2.4, a general purpose XML library for Python and IronPython. == Overview == bridge is very simple and light. It basically let you load an XML document via a set of different parsers (xml.dom, expat, Amara, lxml, System.Xml and ElementTree) and creates a tree of Elements and Attributes before releasing the parser resources. This means that once the document is loaded it is independent from the underlying parser. bridge then provides a straightforward interface to navigate through the tree and manipulate it. bridge does not try to replace underlying XML engines but offer a common API so that your applications are less dependent of those engines. bridge offers a couple of other goodies however to play with the tree of elements (see the documentation). == What's new? == This release is an important milestone for bridge: * added expat parser (seems to be the fatest parser bridge has) * many namespace issues fixed with the default parser * added incremental parsing with dispatching based on rules during the parsing of bridge Elements * added path lookup support (not XPath) * slightly increased the API of a few helps functions == TODO == Potentially the IronPython implementation is not as up-to-date as the other parsers. All parsers will generate the same bridge structure. The only minor difference at the present time is coming from the lxml parser which does not preserve processing instructions and comments before the root element. bridge cannot therefore access them. Add more unit tests. == Download == * easy_install -U bridge * Tarballs http://www.defuze.org/oss/bridge/ * svn co https://svn.defuze.org/oss/bridge/ == Documentation == Wiki: http://trac.defuze.org/wiki/bridge Have fun, -- Sylvain Hellegouarch http://www.defuze.org