From ff287cfb4c30509730d522bd2fc58331b5cd0627 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:58:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Point to the PyXML package as an extended version of the "xml" package that can provide this fuctionality. Note that the docs for the xml.dom and xml.sax packages are the definitiona of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces. --- Doc/lib/markup.tex | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/lib/markup.tex b/Doc/lib/markup.tex index 66934c42bd2..0d923a72d11 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/markup.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/markup.tex @@ -7,4 +7,23 @@ Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and several interfaces for working with the Extensible Markup Language (XML). +It is important to note that modules in the \module{xml} package +require that there be at least one SAX-compliant XML parser available. +Starting with Python 2.3, the Expat parser is included with Python, so +the \refmodule{xml.parsers.expat} module will always be available. +You may still want to be aware of the \ulink{PyXML add-on +package}{http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/}; that package provides an +extended set of XML libraries for Python. + +The documentation for the \module{xml.dom} and \module{xml.sax} +packages are the definition of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX +interfaces. + \localmoduletable + +\begin{seealso} + \seetitle[http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/] + {Python/XML Libraries} + {Home page for the PyXML package, containing an extension + of \module{xml} package bundled with Python.} +\end{seealso}