[XML-SIG] ANN: Updated Python/XML Binding release available

[Peter A. Bigot]

Several months ago I announced the initial public release of PyXB, a 
pure Python package that generates Python bindings from XML schema.  
PyXB is now feature-complete at version 0.7.3, with an expected posting 
of the stable version 1.0.0 by the end of September.  The documentation 
is at http://pyxb.sourceforge.net, and the release can be downloaded 
from links on that page.

PyXB supports almost all features of XML schema, including:

    * Class constants corresponding to string enumeration constraints
    * Simple and complex type definitions
    * List and union datatypes
    * Constraints on (simple) datatypes (e.g., minInclusive, length)
    * Model groups and attribute groups
    * Complex content models (all, sequence, choice); minOccurs and 
maxOccurs
    * Abstract types, xsi:type, substitution groups
    * Nillable elements with xsi:nil
    * Namespace qualified attributes and elements
    * Import and include directives
    * Documentation annotations present in the schema are converted to 
Python docstrings in the generated bindings.
    * Pattern constraints (as long as the simple type derives from 
something that is represented as a Python string)

The full package includes bindings for almost two dozen WS-*--related 
schema including SOAP and WSDL, and the complete set of schema for 
OpenGIS.  Its limitations are that it has only crude support for 
bindings that do not validate, does not support the "redefine" 
directive, and is not always as informative regarding why a particular 
document is invalid as one might wish.

A users mailing list is available at 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=pyxb-users.  I 
would appreciate any feedback.

Peter