[Announce] Gnosis (XML) Utils 1.0.3

[David Mertz, Ph.D.]

This release contains some improvements to gnosis.xml.objectify:

 * Reorganized single-file module into subpackage with test/ and
   doc/ subpackages/directories.

 * Added caching of dynamic object creation.  This leads to a
   considerable speedup where the same-named XML subnode occurs
   many times in the XML file (a frequent situation).

 * Allowed "objectification" of a DOM tree, as well as the prior
   filename/filehandle.  Especially in Jython contexts, one is
   sometimes delivered a a pre-build DOM rather than raw XML.

It may be obtained at:
   http://gnosis.cx/download/Gnosis_Utils-1.0.3.tar.gz

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

Try it out, have fun, send feedback!

David Mertz (mertz at gnosis.cx)

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

    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.indexer      (XPATH indexing of XML documents)
    gnosis.indexer          (Full-text indexing/searching)
    [...].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)

...and so much more! :-)


SUMMARY:
<P><A HREF="http://gnosis.cx/download/Gnosis_Util.ANNOUNCE">
Gnosis_Util 1.0.3</A>  (Thu 07-18-2002)