Date: Mar. 26, 2001
Link: http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/
Source Author or Organization: Jack Jansen, Lars Marius Garshol, Fredrik Lundh, Paul Prescod, Uche Ogbuji, Mike Olson, Python.org

PyXML is a package of XML tools for Python.

The distribution includes the Pyexpat parser by Jack Jansen, the xmlproc parser by Lars Marius Garshol, the sgmlop parser by Fredrik Lundh, a Simple Application Programming Interface for XML (SAX) interface by Lars Marius Garshol, the MiniDOM DOM implementation by Paul Prescod, the 4DOM DOM implementation from Uche Ogbuji and Mike Olson of Fourthought, documentation, example programs, and a collection of functions and utility modules.

Improvements over the last release include better SAX2 handling, DocumentFragment interface support in MiniDOM, support for both "strict" and "loose" modes of operation in Web Distributed Data Exchange (WDDX) marshalling, and setup support for specification of an alternate expat installation via two command line options.