lxml Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API. lxml is a Pythonic, mature binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It provides safe and convenient access to these libraries using the ElementTree API. It extends the ElementTree API significantly to offer support for XPath, RelaxNG, XML Schema, XSLT, C14N and much more. In case you want to use the current in-development version of lxml, you can get it from the subversion repository at http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk . Running ``easy_install lxml==dev`` will install it from http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk#egg=lxml-dev 1.3beta (2007-02-27) ==================== Features added -------------- * ``DTD`` validator class (like ``RelaxNG`` and ``XMLSchema``) * HTML generator helpers by Fredrik Lundh in ``lxml.htmlbuilder`` * ``ElementMaker`` XML generator by Fredrik Lundh in ``lxml.builder.E`` * Support for pickeling ``objectify.ObjectifiedElement`` objects to XML * ``update()`` method on Element.attrib * Optimised replacement for libxml2's _xmlReconsiliateNs(). This allows lxml a better handling of namespaces when moving elements between documents. Bugs fixed ---------- * Possible memory leaks in namespace handling when moving elements between documents Other changes ------------- * major restructuring in the documentation http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/source/l/lxml/lxml-1.3beta.tar.gz lxml dev team 0891cfaf874e18654d343cd2a2c32d3521ef6a98 1.3beta