Any Python XML Data Binding Utilities Avaiable?

[Jan Dries]

SeSe wrote:
> Hi, every one, happy new year!
> 
> I am working on XML with Python. I wonder if there is any XML Schema<-> 
> Python Object mapping tools so that we can convert one to another.
> Thanks.

You may want to look at generateDS. It can generate Python data 
structures from an XML Schema document. It supports only a subset of the 
schema spec, but is nonetheless quite useful.
See http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/generateDS.html

There's also minixsv, which does something similar. I've never used it 
myself though. See 
http://www.leuthe.homepage.t-online.de/minixsv/minixsv_overview.html

The most complete Schema validator in Python is probably XSV. It doesn't 
have the ability to generate Python object mappings though.
See http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/xsv-status.html

Another extensive schema parser is part of (and well hidden in) the wsdl 
toolset from the pywebsvcs project. It does support Python object 
mapping generation, but the usefulness of the result is limited outside 
the context of web services.
See http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
Jan