ANN: XIST 2.11 released

[Walter Dörwald]

XIST 2.11 has been released!


What is it?
===========

XIST is an extensible HTML/XML generator written in Python. XIST is
also a DOM parser (built on top of SAX2) with a very simple and
Pythonesque tree API. Every XML element type corresponds to a Python
class, and these Python classes provide a conversion method to transform
the XML tree (e.g. into HTML). XIST can be considered "object oriented XSL".


What's new in version 2.11?
===========================

   * A script xml2xsc.py has been added, that can be used to parse an
     XML file and generate a rudimentary XIST namespace from it.
   * A DocType for XHTML 1.1 has been added (suggested by Elvelind
     Grandin).
   * Line number information is now added when parsing HTML.
   * The sorted method now supports the same arguments (cmp, key and
     reverse) as list.sort and sorted in Python 2.4.
   * The walk doesn't yield the node directly, but yields a Cursor
     object now, with has several ways of referencing the node.
   * New methods walknode, walkpath and walkindex have been added.
   * Presenters use an iterator API instead of a stream API now.
     Dumping an XML tree presentation to the terminal can now start
     immediately instead of having to wait for the complete string to be
     formatted.
   * Fixed a bug with element/attribute names that contained a .
     character. (This broke ll.xist.ns.fo.)
   * Fixed a bug with xmlns attributes in nested elements. When an
     element ended the parser restored the wrong prefix mapping.
   * The python-quotes demo has been updated to use the current
     version of AMK's XML file.
   * Removed iterator stuff from ll.xist.xfind, as this is now part of
     the ll package/module.
   * The function ToNode has been renamed to tonode.
   * ll.xist.Context now longer subclasses list.
   * ll.xist.ns.doc.explain will now try to output the objects in the
     order in which they appear in the Python source.
   * The node methods find and findfirst have been removed.
   * ll.xist.ns.cond now uses a sandbox dictionary in a converter
     context for evaluating expression.


For changes in older versions see:
http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/History.html


Where can I get it?
===================

XIST can be downloaded from http://ftp.livinglogic.de/xist/
or ftp://ftp.livinglogic.de/pub/livinglogic/xist/

Web pages are at http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/

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Bye,
     Walter Dörwald