CompactXML 2.0.5

Compact XML is an alternative syntax for representing XML files. It uses indentation to indicate nesting to give a python like feel, XPath based prefixes to identify nodes, and has a macro system to shorten common XML constructs. It is intended for writing element based XML files, especially those where the XML elements share a common structure such as XSLT files.<br /><br />This package includes a parser and bidirectional converter for converting from this compact XML syntax to XML, and from XML to this compact XML syntax. <br /><br />Install?*A*<br /><br />compactxml is a pure python library, and should be platform independent. It has been developed and tested on python 2.6 on linux, however. As dependencies, it requires that lxml and pyparsing be installed to function.<br /><br />A normal python setup.py install command should work to install the library.<br />Usage?*A*<br /><br />There is a compactxml.expand function for converting from compact XML syntax to XML, and a compactxml.compact function for converting from XML to compact XML syntax, with variations on both depending on the output format desired. help( compactxml ) will give better usage instructions, and the included documentation in compactxml.rst provides a comprehensive overview of the compact xml syntax.<br /><br />Any errors in expansion or compaction are raised as compactxml.ParsingError.<br /><br />There is also a command line utility compactxml.py in the source distribution which can be used for converting from/to compact xml syntax. See compactxml.py --help for usage information after installation.

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	*nix, Linux
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