XML-code examples - mini-review of Python XML

[Sean Mc Grath]

I want to make a couple of quick points about my book
"XML Processing with Python".

1) Its target audience is developers working with XML who
are new to Python. If you are already a dab hand at Python
this book is *not* for you.

On the other hand, if you are knew to Python and caught up in the
growing wave of interest in Python as an excellent language for
developing XML applications then this book should be of interest.

2) The Pyxie library is a XML processing library specifically
written for use withPython. It is intended to provide an alternative
to the more pervasive - but also more complex - language neutral
XML APIs. As with any Python specific library, your mileage
will vary.

3)  PYX is a new name for an old, tried and trusted
technique for processing hierachical data structures that
dates back at least as far as 1986. See ISO 8879:1986
and also appendix B, attachment 1, The SGML Handbook
by Charles F. Goldfarb (0-19-8853737-9)

4) The PYX notation and PYX generators such as
XMLN and XMLV (available on http://www.pyxie.org),
can be used independently of Python.

regards,
Sean McGrath

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:03:27 -0400, "Andrew Diller"
<dillera at isc.upenn.edu> wrote:

>His book is out there! We got ours last week.
>
>I like the book, but I also found it dissapointing. Most of it is an intro
>into the Python language itself. What's left was mostly about his Pyxie and
>PYX. I'm not sure why I'd want to learn PYX, when what I want is a solid
>book on manipulating XML with python.
>
>I didn't think I got that. I'm interested in learning about DOMs, SAX and
>things that I'm reading and hearing about. PYX seems like a bizzare
>off-shoot.
>
>As for the into to Python part of the book (about 3/4 of it) that was a good
>intro if you've never used python.
>
>-andy diller
>
>
>--
>Andrew Diller       dillera at isc.upenn.edu
>Information Systems & Computing
>University of Pennsylvania
>x3-7360
>"Patrick Phalen" <python-list at teleo.net> wrote in message
>news:00062201025104.08285 at quadra.teleo.net...
>> [Thomas Weholt, on Wed, 14 Jun 2000]
>> :: Is there more simple XML code out there? I mean the HowTos took about
>> :: ten minutes, and it didn`t cover much.
>> ::
>> :: If somebody has some tips or code on how to traverse a DOM-tree,
>> :: processing nodes based on tagname, and especially, based on relations
>> :: with other nodes ( i.e. who`s your daddy, here`s your sister etc ),
>> :: that would be great.
>>
>>
>> While waiting for Sean McGrath's book to hit the shelves, you may find
>> that David Mertz's nice Python XML introductory article gives you a leg
>> up:
>>
>> http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/python1/
>>
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