[XML-SIG] PyXML 0.7.1 release
Martin v. Löwis
loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de
02 May 2002 14:04:34 +0200
Version 0.7.1 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-0.7.1.tar.gz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.7.1.win32-py1.5.exe
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.7.1.win32-py2.1.exe
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.7.1.win32-py2.2.exe
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.7.1-1.5.2.i386.rpm
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.7.1-2.2.i386.rpm
Changes in this version, compared to 0.7:
* sgmlop offers the XMLUnicodeParser (contributed by Walter Dörwald).
* setup.py now supports the option --with(out)-pyexpat.
* On Mac OS X, -flat_namespace is used to build extensions.
* XBEL support for parsing Opera, MSIE, and Netscape bookmarks
was improved.
* c14n is now documented in the reference manual.
* Support for older expat versions is dropped from pyexpat.
* pyexpat can intern strings found during parsing in a dictionary.
* xml.ns now provides XLINK and RNG namespaces.
* 4DOM supports now arbitrary Unicode element and attribute names.
* pulldom supports the iterator protocol.
* Spanish xmlproc messages have been added.
* xml.sax.expatreader has a feature to intern strings, and a
property to access the interning dictionary.
* Construction of Unicode regular expressions in
xml.utils.characters happens lazily through accessor functions.
* Various bugs have been fixed (4DOM, minidom, c14n,
marshal.generic, xmlproc, sax.expatreader, sax.writer,
xml.utils.iso8601)
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)
* 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, questions,
or bug reports to <xml-sig@python.org>.
For more information about Python and XML, see:
http://www.python.org/topics/xml/
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Martin v. Löwis http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis