Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions. Here's what I did: Stuck with sqlAlchemy because I like the idea of ORMs and I like being able to abstract from the database vendor. Left the schema definitions to be generated in a separate file, so that it could be re-used Dumped xml.dom and went to lxml Brought the data processing into the main program
Works like a charm and the code is poetry. Great community. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
