Version 0.8.1 of the Python/XML distribution is now available. It should be considered a beta release, and can be downloaded from the following URLs: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.1.tar.gz http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.1.win32-py2.1.exe http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.1.win32-py2.2.exe http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.1-2.2.i386.rpm Changes in this version, compared to 0.8: * Various bug fixes: - tracing works now with pyexpat - fix registry key for MSIE XBEL support - correct ill-formedness of xmlproc.dtd2schema - avoid adding comments and PIs in the internal subset as Document children when building minidom trees - properly close files in xml.dom.ext.reader.* * XSLT is not installed anymore by default, specify --with-xslt if desired * Update Expat to 1.95.5 * Add features to xml.parsers.expat: - new method "UseForeignDTD" - new attribute "features" * Update to 25 July 2002 LS spec for xml.dom.xmlbuilder. Use expatbuilder if no parser is given to xml.dom.minidom.parse[String]. * Fix many obscure DOM bugs * Define and document the implementation-defined behaviors of cloneNode() for xml.dom.minidom. * Use urllib2 instead of urllib throughout. 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. The package currently contains: * XML parsers: Pyexpat (Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius Garshol), sgmlop (Fredrik Lundh). * SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol) * minidom DOM implementation (Paul Prescod, others) * 4DOM and 4XPath from Fourthought (Uche Ogbuji, Mike Olson) * Schema implementations: TREX (James Tauber) * 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 and questions to <xml-sig@python.org>. Bug reports may be filed on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=6473&atid=106473 For more information about Python and XML, see: http://www.python.org/topics/xml/ -- Martin v. Löwis http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis