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diff --git a/textproc/py-4suite/pkg-descr b/textproc/py-4suite/pkg-descr index 4854461129dc..3adc5139ecbb 100644 --- a/textproc/py-4suite/pkg-descr +++ b/textproc/py-4suite/pkg-descr @@ -1,22 +1,21 @@ -4Suite is a collection of Python tools for XML processing and object data -management, published by Fourthought, Inc under an open source licence. +4Suite is a suite of Python modules for XML and RDF processing. +Its major components include the following: -The suite provides support for XML parsing, several transient and persistent -DOM implementations, XPath expressions, XPointer, XSLT transforms, XLink, RDF -and ODMG object databases. + * Ft.Xml.Domlette: A very fast, lightweight XPath-oriented DOM. + * Ft.Xml.XPath: An XPath 1.0 implementation for Domlette documents. + * Ft.Xml.Xslt: A robust XSLT 1.0 processor. + * Ft.Rdf: RDF processing tools, including a query/inference language. + * Ft.Server: An integrated document & RDF repository with web access. + * Ft.Lib: Various support libraries that can be used independently. -The development of 4Suite is closely coordinated with that of the publicly -developed PyXML extension for Python. 4Suite is not intended to replace -PyXML, but rather to augment it with additional functionality. As certain -parts of 4Suite reach maturity they will be transferred to PyXML (this has -already happened with the 4DOM implementation of the DOM API). Eventually -PyXML will be a complete and stable toolkit, while 4Suite will continue to -provide bleeding edge (re)implementations. - -The user of Python 2.0 and later therefore now has three options for XML -processing: the built-in 'xml' package, PyXML, and 4Suite. PyXML overrides -and/or extends the 'xml' package, and 4Suite does the same for PyXML. +4Suite also includes convenient command-line tools: + * 4xml: XML document parsing and reserialization. + * 4xpath: XPath expression evaluation. + * 4xslt: XSLT processing engine. + * 4rdf: RDF/XML parsing, persistence, querying and reserialization. + * 4ss_manager: Document/RDF repository administration. + * 4ss: Document/RDF repository user commands. WWW: http://4suite.org/ --- Johann Visagie <wjv@FreeBSD.org> +-- Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> |