[DB-SIG] ANN: 4Suite 0.10.1
uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com
uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:33:48 -0700
Fourthought, Inc. (http://Fourthought.com) announces the release of
4Suite 0.10.1
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Open source tools for standards-based XML, DOM, XPath, XSLT, RDF
XPointer, XLink and object-database development in Python
http://4Suite.org
4Suite is a collection of Python tools for XML processing and object
database management. An integrated packaging of several formerly
separately-distributed components: 4DOM, 4XPath and 4XSLT, 4RDF, 4ODS,
4XPointer, 4XLink and DbDOM.
News
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* PyXML (0.6.3 + fixes) is now built in
* Implement XInclude
* DbDom: Implement cloneNode and document fragments
* XSLT: More thorough test harness
* XSLT: Support source docs from stdin on 4xslt command line
* XSLT: Implement unparsed-entity-uri
* XSLT: Restricted HTML writer output allowed as security tool
* XPath: Add extension funcs: evaluate,distinct,split,range,if,find
* DOM: Update to 2000-11-13 level 2 recomendation
* DOM: Proper SAX2 support for reader
* DOM: Add native sgmlop reader
* RDF: Add removeAll to Model
* Documentation updates and consolidation
* Domlette reader option to force 8-bit DOM strings even in Python 2.0
* Organize Reader and URI handler APIs to allow easier customizations
* Many Python 1.5.2 and 2.0 compatibility fixes
* Many misc optimizations
* Many misc bug-fixes
* 4Suite.org revamped: much heavier use of 4Suite Server features
More info and Obtaining 4Suite
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Please see
http://4Suite.org
>From where you can download source, Windows and Linux binaries.
4Suite is distributed under a license similar to that of the
Apache Web Server.
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Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant
uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com +01 303 583 9900 x 101
Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com
4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA
Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python