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4Suite is a suite of Python modules for XML and RDF processing.
Its major components include the following:

 * Ft.Xml.Domlette: A very fast, lightweight XPath-oriented DOM.
 * Ft.Xml.Sax: A very fast SAX 2 parser.
 * Ft.Xml.XPath: An XPath 1.0 implementation for Domlette documents.
 * Ft.Xml.Xslt: A robust XSLT 1.0 processor.
 * Ft.Xml.XUpdate: An XUpdate 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.

4Suite also includes convenient command-line tools:
 * 4xml: XML document parsing and reserialization.
 * 4xpath: XPath expression evaluation.
 * 4xslt: XSLT processing.
 * 4xupdate: XUpdate processing.
 * 4rdf: RDF/XML parsing, persistence, querying and reserialization.
 * 4ss_manager: Document/RDF repository administration.
 * 4ss: Document/RDF repository user commands.

4Suite 1.0b1 is the last release of the monolithic 4Suite package;
4Suite XML, 4Suite RDF, and 4Suite Repository are replacing it.

WWW: http://4suite.org/

-- Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>