[XML-SIG] [Announce] Gnosis Utils 1.1.1

[David Mertz, Ph.D.]

This release adds gnosis.xml.relax to the package.

Miscellaneous speedups and bugfixes to gnosis.xml.objectify.

 - addChild() convenience function

Improvements to floating point handling in gnosis.xml.pickle.

 - minor improvements to tests

Little used gnosis.trigramlib updated per needs of my personal
spam filter.

Minor fixes in gnosis.util.introspect.

It may be obtained at:
    http://gnosis.cx/download/Gnosis_Utils-1.1.1.tar.gz

The current release is always available as:
    http://gnosis.cx/download/Gnosis_Utils-current.tar.gz

You may browse a snapshot at:
    http://gnosis.cx/download/gnosis/

Try it out, have fun, send feedback!

David Mertz (mertz at gnosis.cx)
Frank McIngvale (frankm at hiwaay.net)

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BACKGROUND:  Gnosis Utilities contains a number of Python libraries, most
(but not all) related to working with XML.  These include:

    gnosis.indexer          (Full-text indexing/searching)
    gnosis.xml.pickle       (XML pickling of Python objects)
    gnosis.xml.objectify    (Any XML to "native" Python objects)
    gnosis.xml.validity     (Enforce validity constraints)
    gnosis.xml.relax        (Tools for working with RelaxNG)
    gnosis.xml.indexer      (XPATH indexing of XML documents)
    [...].convert.txt2html  (Convert ASCII source files to HTML)
    gnosis.util.dtd2sql     (DTD -> SQL 'CREATE TABLE' statements)
    gnosis.util.sql2dtd     (SQL query -> DTD for query results)
    gnosis.util.xml2sql     (XML -> SQL 'INSERT INTO' statements)
    gnosis.util.combinators (Combinatorial higher-order functions)
    gnosis.util.introspect  (Introspect Python objects)
    gnosis.magic            (Multimethods, metaclasses, etc)

...and so much more! :-)