From jpabgrall at hotmail.com  Sat Oct  1 02:01:40 2005
From: jpabgrall at hotmail.com (jp abgrall)
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:01:40 +0000
Subject: [XML-SIG] soon to be broken link in
	http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/docs.html
Message-ID: <BAY108-F2259552F650A33202153E8A28E0@phx.gbl>

On: http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/docs.html
"Writing an application for a SAX-compliant XML parser"
uses: http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/XML/
but should use: http://www.leverkruid.nl/XML/index.html
--



From noreply at sourceforge.net  Sun Oct  9 11:05:12 2005
From: noreply at sourceforge.net (SourceForge.net)
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:05:12 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] [ pyxml-Bugs-1319879 ] please update PyPI/cheeseshop
Message-ID: <E1EOX7I-0007Od-2m@sc8-sf-web3.sourceforge.net>

Bugs item #1319879, was opened at 2005-10-09 01:05
Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=106473&aid=1319879&group_id=6473

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,
including the initial issue submission, for this request,
not just the latest update.
Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Drew Perttula (drewp)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: please update PyPI/cheeseshop

Initial Comment:
It would be really nice to say
install_requires=['PyXML'] in a setuptools setup.py,
but the cheeseshop page
(http://www.python.org/pypi/PyXML/0.8.1) is out of date
and incomplete.

Please register a new version with cheeseshop and
supply a download url so setuptools can do its
automatic install. loewis and aaronsw are listed as
owners on the cheeseshop entry, so they are probably
the only ones who can do this.

Thanks!


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You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=106473&aid=1319879&group_id=6473

From mcharest at sogetel.net  Mon Oct 10 11:11:27 2005
From: mcharest at sogetel.net (mcharest@sogetel.net)
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:11:27
Subject: [XML-SIG] Can I use (and How to use) a DOM Validating Reader ...
Message-ID: <20051010151130.C234E1E4864@bag.python.org>

Hi, 

* I am a beginner with XML processing, so please bear with me !

* I have looked over the Python/XML HOWTO and I am currently reading
Python & XML (Jones & Drake) O'Reilly book.  Did not find what I am looking for.

OBJECTIVES:
---------------
* I would like to parse the attached XML file using Python and a simple DOM API, however I would like the following additional features:
a) Use a Validating Reader (I would like to use a DTD at run-time within my application)
b) XML processor to ignore all the trailing line feeds (used to visually format the XML file).

SAMPLE XML FILE:
---------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<!DOCTYPE casefile SYSTEM "cases.dtd">
<casefile name="data" revision="PA1" date="2005-10-01">
<case date="2005-10-01">
<problem> Find an apartment </problem>
<solution> Use Google </solution>
<outcome> successful </outcome>
</case>
</casefile>

QUESTIONS:
--------------
a) Does PyXML offer a Validating DOM Reader ?  (Or, is a Validating Reader
only available for SAX?)

b) Would using a DOM Validating DOM Reader automatically eliminate the
extra trailing line feeds in my DOM object ? If not, how do I get the DOM object
to drop the extra line feeds ?

c) Can I do the above without using the 4Suite XML package ?

Many thanks, 
Michel




From Uche.Ogbuji at fourthought.com  Sun Oct 16 07:18:51 2005
From: Uche.Ogbuji at fourthought.com (Uche Ogbuji)
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:18:51 -0600
Subject: [XML-SIG] Can I use (and How to use) a DOM Validating Reader	...
In-Reply-To: <20051010151130.C234E1E4864@bag.python.org>
References: <20051010151130.C234E1E4864@bag.python.org>
Message-ID: <1129439931.4600.119.camel@borgia>

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 11:11 +0000, mcharest at sogetel.net wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> * I am a beginner with XML processing, so please bear with me !
> 
> * I have looked over the Python/XML HOWTO and I am currently reading
> Python & XML (Jones & Drake) O'Reilly book.  Did not find what I am looking for.
> 
> OBJECTIVES:
> ---------------
> * I would like to parse the attached XML file using Python and a simple DOM API, however I would like the following additional features:
> a) Use a Validating Reader (I would like to use a DTD at run-time within my application)
> b) XML processor to ignore all the trailing line feeds (used to visually format the XML file).
> 
> SAMPLE XML FILE:
> ---------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
> <!DOCTYPE casefile SYSTEM "cases.dtd">
> <casefile name="data" revision="PA1" date="2005-10-01">
> <case date="2005-10-01">
> <problem> Find an apartment </problem>
> <solution> Use Google </solution>
> <outcome> successful </outcome>
> </case>
> </casefile>
> 
> QUESTIONS:
> --------------
> a) Does PyXML offer a Validating DOM Reader ?  (Or, is a Validating Reader
> only available for SAX?)

Well you can build a DOM from SAX through the validating reader.

> b) Would using a DOM Validating DOM Reader automatically eliminate the
> extra trailing line feeds in my DOM object ? If not, how do I get the DOM object
> to drop the extra line feeds ?

Depending on your DTD, those interstitial newlines might be ignorable
whitespace.  They are unless they match a PCDATA pattern in the DTD.

If they are, then they would come into SAX in an ignorableWhitespace
event rather than characters.  You could use this to tweak the creation
of the DOM.

> c) Can I do the above without using the 4Suite XML package ?

I think you can by hacking the SAX2-based readers in 4DOM (which is part
of PyXML, not 4Suite).

Then again, 4Suite has a very fast SAX -> DOM walker.  It doesn't
validate, but it also has a very fast whitespace stripper that would
eliminate the interstitial whitespace.


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                               Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net                    http://fourthought.com
http://copia.ogbuji.net                   http://4Suite.org
Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/


From mhari2 at uic.edu  Wed Oct 19 17:29:13 2005
From: mhari2 at uic.edu (Hari, Mahender)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:29:13 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [XML-SIG] Help required with PyXML
Message-ID: <1364.128.248.234.222.1129735753.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu>

Hi,

I am currently working on a project where I am using python and I am also
using a XML file to provide the input params to the program. I happended
to stumble upon PyXML, but the download link doesn't seem to work. Could
you guys check that out. Also I am newbie to python and I want to know, is
it possible to parse a DTD and use the constraits I specify in the DTD to
regulate the input params i accept from the user in the GUI I am creating
using wxpython(BOA constructor). Your advice would be much appreciated.

regards,

Mahender


From anders at norrbom.info  Wed Oct 19 17:38:22 2005
From: anders at norrbom.info (Anders Norrbom)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:38:22 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Help required with PyXML
In-Reply-To: <1364.128.248.234.222.1129735753.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu>
References: <1364.128.248.234.222.1129735753.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu>
Message-ID: <4356686E.20800@norrbom.info>

Hi Hari
The only validating parser I know of for Python is xmlproc.
I have had some problems with multibyte characters and xmlproc so I 
started to use pyexpat instead.

/A

Hari, Mahender wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am currently working on a project where I am using python and I am also
>using a XML file to provide the input params to the program. I happended
>to stumble upon PyXML, but the download link doesn't seem to work. Could
>you guys check that out. Also I am newbie to python and I want to know, is
>it possible to parse a DTD and use the constraits I specify in the DTD to
>regulate the input params i accept from the user in the GUI I am creating
>using wxpython(BOA constructor). Your advice would be much appreciated.
>
>regards,
>
>Mahender
>
>_______________________________________________
>XML-SIG maillist  -  XML-SIG at python.org
>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
>  
>


From fredrik at pythonware.com  Wed Oct 19 22:14:09 2005
From: fredrik at pythonware.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:14:09 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Help required with PyXML
References: <1364.128.248.234.222.1129735753.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu>
Message-ID: <dj69ei$uc$1@sea.gmane.org>

"Hari, Mahender" wrote:

> I am currently working on a project where I am using python and I am also
> using a XML file to provide the input params to the program. I happended
> to stumble upon PyXML, but the download link doesn't seem to work. Could
> you guys check that out.

this page ?

    http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/

(the first google hit for "pyxml")

the download link on that page points to a sourceforge download
page, which allows you to download various pyxml releases from a
lot of different mirrors.

</F>




From uidmmc at martin-collins.de  Sat Oct 22 19:49:10 2005
From: uidmmc at martin-collins.de (Martin Collins)
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:49:10 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Missing modukes '_ssl', 'ext.IsDOMString',
	'ext.SplitQName' ?
Message-ID: <435A7B96.3050807@martin-collins.de>

Hi,

i get the following error message when i use py2exe on my application:

The following modules appear to be missing
['_ssl', 'ext.IsDOMString', 'ext.SplitQName']

I've installed PyXML-0.8.4.win32-py2.4.exe. My version of python is 2.4
I've checked in the pyxml directories and these modules are not there.

Anybody have an idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Martin.


From uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com  Tue Oct 25 02:21:25 2005
From: uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com (Uche Ogbuji)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:21:25 -0600
Subject: [XML-SIG] Subject: ANN: 4Suite XML 1.0b2
Message-ID: <1130199685.4600.462.camel@borgia>

Today we release 4Suite XML 1.0 beta 2, now available from Sourceforge
and ftp.4suite.org.

The most important development is that 4Suite is being split into three
separate packages:

4Suite XML - XML, XPath, XSLT, related technologies and support
libraries
4Suite RDF - RDF processing libraries and stand-alone DBMS
4Suite Repository - XML and RDF repository

The main reasons for this split are

  * The core XML libraries are much more mature than the rest of 4Suite,
    and indeed have been 1.0 quality for a long time
  * The size of the overall package gives pause to people who just want
    a basic XML processing toolkit

The plans are to push 4Suite XML to 1.0 and then focus on 4Suite RDF and
4Suite Repository.

Highlights of changes in 4Suite XML since the last release
--

* New user manual and improvements to API documentation
* Domlette: Convenience parse functions Ft.Xml.Parse
  and Ft.Xml.ParsePath
* XSLT: XSLT processing convenience functions Ft.Xml.Xslt.Transform and
  Ft.Xml.Xslt.TransformPath
* XML Catalogs: improved implementation and compliance
* XInclude and XPointer: improved coverage of the spec
* Yet more significant performance increases throughout:
  * XSLT: Fixed huge performance bug with large, complex transforms
  * Combined XML string routines into a single module
    Ft.Xml.Lib.XmlString
    - IsQName, IsNCName, IsName and IsNmtoken implemented in C
    - Removed Python versions of implemented functions
  * Domlette: switched struct allocs to use the Python object allocator
    (speed)
  * Domlette: changed callback qualified names to be reported as a
    struct instead of a string with parts separated by a special
    character (speed & memory)
  * Domlette: changed Node.prefix to be computed runtime rather than
    stored (memory)
  * Domlette: added interning of individual name parts (speed & memory)
* Domlette: new parsing function ParseFragment (to replace
  NonvalParse(parseAsEntity=True))
* Saxlette: Ft.Xml.Domlette.SaxWalker class for walking a DOM and
  emitting SAX events as if from a parse
* Saxlette: suspend and resume support, which allows users to create
  SAX applications using Python generator semantics
* Saxlette: new ContentHandler (Ft.Xml.Sax.DomBuilder) for constructing
  Domlette Documents
* Saxlette: improved compatability with PySAX
* Saxlette: support for full LexicalHandler and ContentHandler
  interfaces
* Fix case-sensitivity clashes in modules in some Windows set-ups
* Improved DocBook utilities
* moved SourceArgToInputSource from Ft.Xml.Lib to
  Ft.Lib.CommandLine.CommandLineUtil
* RELAX NG: Add support for wxs string type facets maxLength, minLength
  and pattern
* XPath: Added extension function typing information.  Currently only
  used for documentation purposes but could lead to automatic type
  conversions.
* Installation locations should be accessed in the form
  Ft.GetConfigVar('xxxDIR'), rather than the original Ft.xxxDIR
* XPointer: new Ft.Xml.XPointer.Compile convenience function
* XSLT: Add i18n in XSLT support (f:setup-translations and
  f:gettext ext elements)
* XSLT: implement Extended versions of XSLT elements for debugging and
  execution tracing (Ft.Xml.Xslt.ExtendedProcessingElements)
* XSLT: Support UTF-8 BOM in xsl:output and exsl:document (extension
  attribute f:utfbom)Support safegaurs against file overwrite in
  exsl:document (extension attribute f:overwrite-safeguard)
* XSLT: Add prefix to namespace mapping to 4XSLT command line

* Internal detail: Added UCS4/UTF-32  internal encoding support to Expat
  to allow for direct copying of XML_Char into Py_UNICODE thus
  preventing an unnecessary decoding step on our part.  This also
  greatly simplifies XML_Char routines.

4Suite is a comprehensive platform for XML and RDF processing, with base
libraries and a server framework.  It is implemented in Python and C,
and provides Python and XSLT APIs, Web and command line interfaces.
4Suite XML is the core set of XML, XPath, XSLT, related technologies
and support libraries.

For general information, see:

http://4suite.org
http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4Suite/
http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/akara/nodes/2003-01-01/4suite-section

For the files, see:

ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/

Sources:

ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0b2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0b2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0b2.zip


Windows installer:

ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0b2.win32-py2.2.exe
ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0b2.win32-py2.3.exe
ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0b2.win32-py2.4.exe

You can also get the files on Sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/foursuite/
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39954

Documentation:

In the locations specified above, with filenames of the form

4Suite-XML-docs-1.0b1.*

Release notes
--
The current installation directory layout document tells where package
files
are installed:

http://4suite.org/docs/installation-locations.xhtml

For insulation from Domlette implementation changes, developers should
always use the generic Ft.Xml.Domlette APIs (rather than, say
Ft.Xml.cDomlette).


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                               Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net                    http://fourthought.com
http://copia.ogbuji.net                   http://4Suite.org
Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/


From zhu_dave at yahoo.com  Tue Oct 25 21:21:10 2005
From: zhu_dave at yahoo.com (Dave)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:21:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [XML-SIG] Python XML Profiling
Message-ID: <20051025192111.68499.qmail@web30614.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hello All,

I'm trying to profile a Python XML program, but
getting confused because of the results. It basically
traverses an XML file. The gprof profiling results are
as follows:

% Time  Self Seconds  Calls  Name 
34.8    0.63                   _moncount
 10.5   0.19                   mcount
 10.5   0.19    20,427    _PyEval_EvalFrame
  3.9    0.07   275,249   _lookdict_string  
  ...
  0.0    0.00    11,753   __PyString_Eq

As I understand, _moncount and mcount are related with
gprof and _PyEval_EvalFrame is the main interpreter
loop. It seems this simple program spends a lot of
time in the interpreter loop. I thought a program
which handles XML would spend a lot of time on string
processing, i.e. string matching. In this case, it
spends just a little time on _lookdict_string, which
does not even do string matching. However, the string
matching function (__PyString_Eq) takes negligible
time. How could this be possible? How does it achieve
XML processing without exact string matching?

Thank you for your help!

Dave


		
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Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click.
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From dkgunter at lbl.gov  Wed Oct 26 22:08:37 2005
From: dkgunter at lbl.gov (Dan Gunter)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:08:37 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] Python XML Profiling
In-Reply-To: <20051025192111.68499.qmail@web30614.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <20051025192111.68499.qmail@web30614.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <435FE245.3040503@lbl.gov>

Have you considered using the Python profiler? A co-worker of mine gave 
a presentation about it that might help you get started.

http://dsd.lbl.gov/DSDlocal/DSDMeetings/PythonProfiler.ppt

-Dan

Dave wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>I'm trying to profile a Python XML program, but
>getting confused because of the results. It basically
>traverses an XML file. The gprof profiling results are
>as follows:
>
>% Time  Self Seconds  Calls  Name 
>34.8    0.63                   _moncount
> 10.5   0.19                   mcount
> 10.5   0.19    20,427    _PyEval_EvalFrame
>  3.9    0.07   275,249   _lookdict_string  
>  ...
>  0.0    0.00    11,753   __PyString_Eq
>
>As I understand, _moncount and mcount are related with
>gprof and _PyEval_EvalFrame is the main interpreter
>loop. It seems this simple program spends a lot of
>time in the interpreter loop. I thought a program
>which handles XML would spend a lot of time on string
>processing, i.e. string matching. In this case, it
>spends just a little time on _lookdict_string, which
>does not even do string matching. However, the string
>matching function (__PyString_Eq) takes negligible
>time. How could this be possible? How does it achieve
>XML processing without exact string matching?
>
>Thank you for your help!
>
>Dave
>
>
>		
>__________________________________ 
>Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click.
>http://farechase.yahoo.com
>_______________________________________________
>XML-SIG maillist  -  XML-SIG at python.org
>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
>  
>


From mike at skew.org  Fri Oct 28 05:54:42 2005
From: mike at skew.org (Mike Brown)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:54:42 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: [XML-SIG] PyXML vs. stdlib xml.sax
Message-ID: <200510280354.j9S3sgxg007652@chilled.skew.org>

What exactly does PyXML's xml.sax offer that isn't in stdlib? I have been 
having trouble locating any docs that answer the question "why would I want to 
install this?"

After looking in various places (mainly the source code), I get the impression 
that you would want PyXML's xml.sax libs if you...

* want to use SAX in Python < 2.0 (xml.sax wasn't in stdlib until Python 2.0), or
* want stdlib xml.sax bug fixes made after the release of your version of Python, or
* want SAX 1 drivers, or
* want a larger set of SAX 2 drivers (in stdlib there is only a driver for Pyexpat,
  whereas PyXML gives you drivers for PyXML's xmlproc and Python's htmllib, sgmlop,
  and sgmllib), or
* want these enhancements that are not yet (and may never be) in Python xml.sax:
    * xml.sax.saxlib - SAX 2 core interface classes
    * additions to xml.sax.saxutils, including:
        * unescape(), a function which does the inverse of escape()
        * AttributeMap, a SAX 1 AttributeList implementation
        * Location, a SAX 1 & 2 Locator implementation
        * DefaultHandler, a SAX 2 DefaultHandler interface class
        * Canonizer, a SAX 1 DocumentHandler that produces Canonical XML
        * ContentGenerator, a SAX 1 DocumentHandler wrapper for XMLGenerator
          (which is an XML-serializing SAX 2 ContentHandler)
        * ESISDocHandler, a SAX 1 DocumentHandler that produces naive ESIS output
        * LexicalXMLGenerator, an XMLGenerator that also supports the SAX 2 
          LexicalHandler interface
        * BaseIncrementalParser, a minimal IncrementalParser for driver authors
        * EventBroadcaster, a class that relays method calls to multiple objects
    * xml.sax.saxexts - experimental extensions, including:
        * parser factories for XML, SGML, and HTML, supporting all the SAX 1
          drivers in PyXML
        * ExtendedParser, an extension of the xml.sax.saxlib.Parser interface
    * xml.sax.sax2exts - experimental SAX 2-specific extensions, including:
        * parser factories for XML, SGML, and HTML, supporting all the SAX 2
          drivers in PyXML

Does this look right? What other differences are there?

Thanks,
Mike

From mike at skew.org  Fri Oct 28 13:27:37 2005
From: mike at skew.org (Mike Brown)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:27:37 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: [XML-SIG] PyXML vs. stdlib xml.sax
In-Reply-To: <200510280354.j9S3sgxg007652@chilled.skew.org>
Message-ID: <200510281127.j9SBRbvl014770@chilled.skew.org>

I wrote:
> * want to use SAX in Python < 2.0 (xml.sax wasn't in stdlib until Python 2.0)

(notwithstanding the fact that support for Python <= 1.5 was dropped in PyXML 0.8)

From uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com  Fri Oct 28 22:29:35 2005
From: uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com (Uche Ogbuji)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:29:35 -0600
Subject: [XML-SIG] ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 1.1.6
Message-ID: <1130531376.7385.32.camel@borgia>

http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4suite/amara
ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/Amara/

Changes since Amara 1.0:

* Use Saxlette over Python stdlib SAX
* Move from threads to generators for pushdom/pushbind
* Simplify API.  Make most key functions available from the amara module
    import amara
    amara.parse
    amara.pushbind
    amara.pushdom
    amara.create_document
* Change node.xml_remove_child to take the child object to be removed
* Add node.xml_remove_child_at which takes the index
  (as node.xml_remove_child used to)
* Big performance improvements
* Add xml_parse_fragment
* Add quick reference
* Add support for PIs and comments in XPath
* Allow custom bindings for processing instructions
  (binder.set_pi_binding_class)
* Upate date/time handling in type inferencer to use Gustavo Niemeyer's
  dateutil, if available ( http://labix.org/python-dateutil )
* Packaging fixes
* Bug fixes and documentation improvements

Amara XML Toolkit is a collection of Python tools for XML processing--
not just tools that happen to be written in Python, but tools built from
the ground up to use Python idioms and take advantage of the many
advantages of Python.

Amara builds on 4Suite [http://4Suite.org], but whereas 4Suite focuses
more on literal implementation of XML standards in Python, Amara
focuses on Pythonic idiom.  It provides tools you can trust to conform
with XML standards without losing the familiar Python feel.

The components of Amara are:

* Bindery: data binding tool (a very Pythonic XML API)
* Scimitar: implementation of the ISO Schematron schema language for
            XML; converts Schematron files to Python scripts
* domtools: set of tools to augment Python DOMs
* saxtools: set of tools to make SAX easier to use in Python
* Flextyper: user-defined datatypes in Python for XML processing

There's a lot in Amara, but here are highlights:

Amara Bindery: XML as easy as py
--------------------------------

Bindery turns an XML document into a tree of Python objects
corresponding to
the vocabulary used in the XML document, for maximum clarity.  For
example,
the document 

<monty>
  <python spam="eggs">What do you mean "bleh"</python>
  <python ministry="abuse">But I was looking for argument</python>
</monty>

Becomes a data structure such that you can write

binding.monty.python.spam

In order to get the value "eggs" or

binding.monty.python[1]

In order to get the value "But I was looking for argument".

There are other such tools for Python, and what makes Anobind unique is
that it's driven by a very declarative rules-based system for binding
XML to the Python data.  You can register rules that are triggered by
XPattern expressions specialized binding behavior.  It includes XPath
support and supports mutation.  Bindery is very efficient, using SAX
to generate bindings.

Scimitar: Schematron for Pytthon
--------------------------------

Merged in from a separate project, Scimitar is an implementation of ISO
Schematron that compiles a Schematron schema into a Python validator
script.

You typically use scimitar in two phases.  Say you have a schematron
schema schema1.stron and you want to validate multiple XML files
against it, instance1.xml, instance2.xml, instance3.xml.

First you run schema1.stron through the scimitar compiler script,
scimitar.py:

scimitar.py schema1.stron

The generated file, schema1.py, can be used to validate XML instances:

python schema1.py instance1.xml

Which emits a validation report.

Amara DOM Tools: giving DOM a more Pythonic face
------------------------------------------------

DOM came from the Java world, hardly the most Pythonic API possible.
Some DOM-like implementations such as 4Suite's Domlettes mix in some
Pythonic idiom. Amara DOM Tools goes even further.

Amara DOM Tools feature pushdom, similar to xml.dom.pulldom, but
easier to use.  It also includes Python generator-based tools for
DOM processing, and a function to return an XPath location for
any DOM node.

Amara SAX Tools: SAX without the brain explosion
------------------------------------------------

Tenorsax (amara.saxtools.tenorsax) is a framework for "linerarizing" SAX
logic so that it flows more naturally, and needs a lot less state
machine wizardry.

License
-------

Amara is open source, provided under the 4Suite variant of the Apache
license.  See the file COPYING for details.

Installation
------------

Amara 1.1.6 requires Python 2.4 or more recent.  If you do not have
4Suite XML 1.0b2, grab the Amara-allinone package.  If you already have
4Suite XML installed, grab the stand along Amara package.  In either
case,
unpack to a convenient location and run:

python setup.py install


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                               Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net                    http://fourthought.com
http://copia.ogbuji.net                   http://4Suite.org
Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/


From walter at livinglogic.de  Mon Oct 31 15:31:44 2005
From: walter at livinglogic.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Walter_D=F6rwald?=)
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:31:44 +0100
Subject: [XML-SIG] XIST 2.13 released
Message-ID: <43662AD0.8060500@livinglogic.de>

XIST 2.13 has been released!


What is it?
===========

XIST is an extensible HTML/XML generator written in Python. XIST is
also a DOM parser (built on top of SAX2) with a very simple and
Pythonesque tree API. Every XML element type corresponds to a Python
class, and these Python classes provide a conversion method to transform
the XML tree (e.g. into HTML). XIST can be considered "object oriented XSL".


What's new in version 2.13?
===========================

  * ll.xist.xsc.Namespace.tokenize() requires a unicode object as input
     now. This makes it possible to use encodings that are not ASCII
     compatible (such as UTF-16). The encoding argument is gone.
  * ll.xist.xsc.Node.asString() uses the encoding argument to determine
     which characters have to be output as character references now.
     (You'll still get a unicode object as the result.)
  * A new processing instruction class ll.xist.ns.specials.literal
     has been added, that will output it's content literally when
     published. This can be used for embedding preformatted XML (e.g.
     from a database) into an XIST tree.


What's new in version 2.12?
===========================

  * Namespaces for Relax NG and Kid have been added.
  * XIST requires version 1.0 of the core package now.
  * The class name for the DocBook DTD class has been fixed.

For changes in older versions see:
http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/History.html


Where can I get it?
===================

XIST can be downloaded from http://ftp.livinglogic.de/xist/
or ftp://ftp.livinglogic.de/pub/livinglogic/xist/

Web pages are at http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/

ViewCVS access is available at http://www.livinglogic.de/viewcvs/

For information about the mailing lists go to
http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/Mailinglists.html


Bye,
     Walter D?rwald

From neyfakh at uic.edu  Mon Oct 31 18:50:22 2005
From: neyfakh at uic.edu (Alex Neyfakh)
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:50:22 -0600
Subject: [XML-SIG] "borrowing" one of your modules
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20051031114244.02799408@mailserv.uic.edu>

I would like to request your permission to "borrow" one of the modules 
(DTDparser.py) from your PyXML package that we would like to include into 
our software after making some modifications to it. Our software is being 
written purely for research purposes and will be available for free 
download. We plan to acknowledge the origin of the module in its 
docstring.  Is this OK with you?

Thanks much in advance for your reply. Sincerely,


Alex

Alex Neyfakh, Professor
Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology M/C 870
University of Illinois at Chicago
900 S. Ashland Ave. Rm. 3020
Chicago, IL 60607
phone (312)996-7231; fax (312)413-9303