PyXML is a collection of libraries to process XML with Python. It effectively extends and updates Python's built-in XML libraries (the xml.* modules). It contains, among other things: xmlproc: a validating XML 1.0 parser written in Python Expat: a nonvalidating XML 1.0 parser written in C, plus Python bindings PySAX: SAX 1 and SAX2 libraries with drivers for most of the parsers 4DOM: a compliant DOM Level 2 implementation written in Python javadom: a Java-DOM-implementation-to-standard-Python-DOM adapter pulldom: a DOM implementation that supports lazy instantiation of nodes marshal: a module for serializing Python objects to XML formats including WDDX and XML-RPC sgmlop: a C helper module that can speed up xmllib (deprecated) & sgmllib It also provides the latest updates/fixes for minidom (the default xml.dom.implementation), and includes an XPath 1.0 processor for minidom (xml.xpath). Experimental XSLT 1.0 support for minidom can be added if the port is installed with WITH_XSLT defined (e.g. "make install WITH_XSLT=yes"). WWW: http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/ See also: http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/ -- Mike J. Brown (current port maintainer)