XIST 2.8 has been released!
What is it?
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XIST is an extensible HTML/XML generator written in Python. XIST is
also a DOM parser (built on top of SAX2) 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 XSL".
What's new in version 2.8?
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* XIST requires Python 2.4 now.
* ll.xist.ns.specials.x has been renamed to
ll.xist.ns.specials.ignore.
ll.xist.utils.findAttr has been renamed to ll.xist.utils.findattr.
* ll.xist.xfind.item no longer handles slices.
* XFind has been enhanced to support item and slice operators, i.e.
if foo is an XFind operator, foo[0] is an operator that will
produce the first node from foo (if there is one). Negative values
and slices are supported too.
* Operators can be chained via division: html.a/html.b is an operator
that can be passed around and applied to a node.
* XIST requires the new core module and makes use of the new
"cooperative displayhook" functionality defined there: If you
install the displayhook you can tweak or replace
ll.xist.presenters.hookpresenter to change the output.
For changes in older versions see:
http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/History.html
As the package structure has changed, there is a new version of every
other LivingLogic package too.
Furthermore the web pages have been redesigned.
Where can I get it?
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XIST can be downloaded from http://ftp.livinglogic.de/xist/
or ftp://ftp.livinglogic.de/pub/livinglogic/xist/
Web pages are at
http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/
ViewCVS access is available at
http://www.livinglogic.de/viewcvs/
For information about the mailing lists go to
http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/Mailinglists.html
Bye,
Walter Dörwald
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