Version 0.8 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.tar.gz http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.win32-py2.1.exe http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.win32-py2.2.exe http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8-2.2.i386.rpm Changes in this version, compared to 0.7.1: * Python 1.5 is not supported anymore; Python 2.0 or higher is required. * Expat has been updated to 1.95.4. * pyexpat is now always built. * pyexpat now reports skipped entities. * pyexpat now can combine subsequent character data events into a single callback invocation; set the parser's buffer_text attribute to true to enable this feature. * pyexpat can now report namespace prefixes. Set the parser's namespace_prefixes attribute to true to enable this feature. * Various bugs in sgmlop have been fixed. * Various DOM Level 3 symbolic constants have been added; DOMStringSizeErr can now be spelled as DomstringSizeErr again, and ValidationErr has been defined. * Various DOM L1, L2 and L3 features have been added to minidom: userdata, isSupported, getInterface, wholeText, replaceWholeText, Entity, Notation * minidom's .toxml now allows the caller to specify an encoding. * The new module xml.dom.xmlbuilder implements the load part of the DOM L3 Load/Store spec. * The new module xml.dom.expatbuilder allows to create minidom trees more efficiently, by using expat directly (rather than using SAX). This is normally used via xml.dom.xmlbuilder. * Bugs in c14n namespace processing have been fixed. * Minor bugs in xmlproc have been fixed. * xml.sax.expatreader now invokes resolveEntity properly. * The sgmlop SAX driver now invokes skippedEntity. * The xml-howto has been updated. * Bugs in the MSIE, ADR, and NS XBEL parsers have been fixed. 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