FourThought LLC (http://FourThought.com) announces the release of

4XSLT and 4XPath 0.8.1 ---------------------- A python implementation of the W3C's XSLT language

4XSLT is an XML transformation processor based on the W3C's specification for the XSLT transform language. 4XPath implements the W3C XPath language for indicating and selecting XML document components.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

4XPath implements the full 4XPath recommendation except for the 'lang' core function.

Currently, 4XSLT supports a sub-set of the XSLT recommendation including the following:

Full expression support and attribute-value template expansion xsl:include xsl:import xsl:template xsl:apply-imports xsl:apply-templates xsl:copy xsl:call-template xsl:if xsl:for-each xsl:choose xsl:element xsl:when xsl:attribute xsl:otherwise xsl:text xsl:message xsl:value-of xsl:variable xsl:processing-instruction xsl:param xsl:comment xsl:with-param xsl:strip-space xsl:key xsl:preserve-space xsl:copy-of xsl:sort xsl:namespace-alias xsl:output

and, of course, xsl:stylesheet, xsl:transform, literal elements and text

Using the xml output method, 4XSLT produces the result tree by throwing events from the emerging SAX 2 standard to a handler, so it can be easily modified to supply results to any SAX 2 consumer. For the 'html' and 'text' output methods special SAX consumers produce HTML DOM nodes and plain text respectively.

News ----

Changes in 0.8.1 ----------------

- 4XSLT implements xsl:xsl:sort and xsl:namespace-alias - 4XSLT now implements template priorities - 4XPath now has a clear DOM-query interface - many big-fixes and more extensive testing

Changes in 0.8.0 ----------------

- 4XSLT implements xsl:output

- Fixes to namespace handling

- support lteral element as entire style-sheet

- update to latest 4DOM interface

- many big-fixes and more extensive testing

More info and Obtaining 4XPath and 4XSLT ----------------------------------------

Please see

http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XPath http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XSLT

Or you can download 4XSLT from

ftp://FourThought.com/pub/4Suite/4XPath ftp://FourThought.com/pub/4Suite/4XSLT

4XPath and 4XSLT are distributed under a license similar to that of Python.

== Uche Ogbuji FourThought LLC, IT Consultants uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com (970)481-0805 Software engineering, project management, Intranets and Extranets http://FourThought.com http://OpenTechnology.org

<P><A HREF="http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XSLT">4XSLT 0.8.1</A> - XML transformation processor based on the W3C specification for the XSLT transform language. (04-Jan-2000)