xml-dev - ANN: 4Suite 0.9.1

[uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com]

Fourthought, Inc. (http://Fourthought.com) announces the release of

                             4Suite 0.9.1
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   Open source tools for standards-based XML, DOM, XPath, XSLT, RDF
          XPointer and object-database development in Python

4Suite is a collection of Python tools for XML processing and object
database management.  An integrated packaging of several formerly
separately-distributed components: 4DOM, 4XPath and 4XSLT, 4RDF, 4ODS
and featuring the new 4XPointer.

News
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        * Introduced 4XPointer: A parser for xpointer expressions
        * 4XPath: optimized parse tree, now minimizes itself as
          it is created.
        * 4XPath: self-validating test suite
        * 4XSLT and 4XPath: better support for the namespace axis
        * 4XSLT and 4XPath: optimized context management
        * 4XSLT implemented cdata-section-elements
        * 4DOM (HTML): Much improved test suite (actually works, somewhat)
        * 4DOM: improved error handling
        * 4RDF: Implement RDF Schemas
        * 4RDF: RIL bug fixes
        * 4RDF: API clean-up, improve URI handling
        * 4RDF: driver bug fixes
        * 4RDF: improved error handling
        * 4RDF: Serialization/deserialization bug-fixes
        * 4ODS: IMprovements and fixes to DOMWrapper
        * 4DOM and XSLT output fixes
        * 4ODS Fixed bugs in OqlParsers
        * 4ODS Fixed bugs in Oif dump and load
        * Improved exceptions and bug-fixes in cDomlette
        * Packaging fixes
        * Added and improved test suites
        * Many misc optimizations
        * Many misc bug-fixes


More info and Obtaining 4Suite
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Please see

        http://Fourthought.com/4Suite

Or you can download 4Suite source from

        ftp://Fourthought.com/pub/4Suite

There are Windows Packages, Linux RPM and Linux binary also available at

        ftp://Fourthought.com/pub/4Suite

4Suite is distributed under a license similar to that of Python.


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Uche Ogbuji                               Principal Consultant
uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com               +01 303 583 9900 x 101
Fourthought, Inc.                         http://Fourthought.com 
4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA
Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python