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diff --git a/textproc/py-4suite/pkg-descr b/textproc/py-4suite/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5b22a3d62c54 --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/py-4suite/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +4Suite is a collection of Python tools for XML processing and object data +management, published by Fourthought, Inc under an open source licence. + +The suite provides support for XML parsing, several transient and persistent +DOM implementations, XPath expressions, XPointer, XSLT transforms, XLink, RDF +and ODMG object databases. + +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. + +WWW: http://4suite.org/ + +-- Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com> |