[XML-SIG] Proposed announcement

[A.M. Kuchling]

To be sent to: c.l.py.announce, comp.text.xml, xml-dev, www-dom, 
	       announcement on freshmeat.net,
	       other suggestions?

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Version 0.5 of the Python/XML distribution can be downloaded from 
	http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/files/xml-0.5.tgz

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.  Version 0.5 can be considered a beta release.

Major changes in this version:
	* The DOM implementation has been extensively modified, and is
now much closer to compliance with the DOM Recommendation.  

	* A Unicode type has been added as the subpackage xml.unicode.wstring. 

	* Various subpackages have been upgraded to their most recent versions.

The package currently contains:

	* XML parsers: Pyexpat (Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius
Garshol), xmllib.py (Sjoerd Mullender) using the sgmlop.c accelerator
module (Fredrik Lundh).

	* SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol)
	* DOM interface (Stefane Fermigier, A.M. Kuchling)
	* xmlarch.py, for architectural forms processing (Geir Ove Grønmo)
	* Unicode wide-string module (Martin von Löwis)
	* 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 general information about Python, see:
	http://www.python.org
The Python XML-SIG home page is:
	http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/

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