ll-xist Extensible HTML/XML generator XIST is an extensible HTML and XML generator. XIST is also a XML parser 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 XSLT'. XIST also includes the following modules: * ``ll.astyle`` can be used for colored terminal output (via ANSI escape sequences). * ``ll.color`` provides classes and functions for handling RGB color values. This includes the ability to convert between different color models (RGB, HSV, HLS) as well as to and from CSS format, and several functions for modifying and mixing colors. * ``ll.make`` is an object oriented make replacement. Like make it allows you to specify dependencies between files and actions to be executed when files don't exist or are out of date with respect to one of their sources. But unlike make you can do this in a object oriented way and targets are not only limited to files, but you can implement e.g. dependencies on database records. * ``ll.misc`` provides several small utility functions and classes. * ``ll.sisyphus`` provides classes for running Python scripts as cron jobs. * ``ll.daemon`` can be used on UNIX to fork a daemon process. * ``ll.url`` provides classes for parsing and constructing RFC 2396 compliant URLs. * ``ll.xpit`` is a module that makes it possible to embed Python expressions in text (as XML style processing instructions). * ``ll.xml_codec`` contains a complete codec for encoding and decoding XML. Changes in 3.2.4 (released 04/02/2008) -------------------------------------- * The following functions have been added to ``ll.xist.css``: ``parsestring``, ``parsestream``, ``parsefile``, ``parseurl`` and ``write``. They parse CSS resources and are similar to the XML/HTML parsing function in that they apply the specified base URL to all URLs in the style sheet. * ``cssutils`` 0.9.5b2 is required now. * ``ll.xist.css.iterrules`` and ``ll.xist.css.applystylesheets`` now support specifying whether the preferred stylesheets or an alternate stylesheet group should be used. * ``ll.xist.xsc.ProcInst.__mul__`` and ``ll.xist.xsc.ProcInst.__rmul__`` now return a fragment containing the node repeated a number of times instead of one processing instruction node containing repeated content. * The constructor for ``ll.xist.parsers.ExpatParser`` now takes two additional arguments: ``xmldecl`` If this is true the XML declaration will appear in the resulting XIST tree. ``doctype`` If this is true the doctype declaration will appear in the resulting XIST tree (however any interal DTD subset will be dropped). http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/Download.html#xist Walter Doerwald a28d96aa4d25bea249f7de506d34650c80ed4e6d 3.2.4