PyXML 0.8.2 is released

Martin v. Löwis martin@v.loewis.de
26 Jan 2003 11:35:18 +0100


Version 0.8.2 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-0.8.2.tar.gz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2.win32-py2.2.exe
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2-2.2.Suse81.i386.rpm


Changes in this version, compared to 0.8.1:

    * Updated to Expat 1.95.6.

    * Support more DOM L3 features in minidom: 
      isWhitespaceInElementContent, schemaType, isId, 
      DOMImplementationSource

    * Various bug fixes, including
      - 609641: minidom nodes not pickleable
      - 618156: Use character references in XMLGenerator if necessary
      - 622286: marshal.wddx: 'recordset' element typo
      - 624420: Can't create 2nd Sax2.Reader
      - 665486: Implement SAX skippedEntity for Expat

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