
XXX what's the license for everything?  Python-style?

This is the first test release of the Python XML package.  The
distribution contains a validating XML parser, and an implementation
of the SAX programming interface, along with a Python interface to the
Expat parser, and a C helper module that can speed up xmllib.py by a
factor of 5.  There's even documentation!

	There's also a very new DOM implementation included here.  DOM
isn't even a standard yet, but is still at the first working draft
stage.  Therefore, while you can use the DOM code (at your own risk),
it may change in non-backward-compatible ways in future, and
accordingly the DOM code is not documented.

To compile everything, simply perform the following steps.

1) 
 Run "make -f Makefile.pre.in boot".  This creates Makefile
 (producing Makefile.pre and sedscript as intermediate files) and
 config.c, incorporating the values for sys.prefix, sys.exec_prefix
 and sys.version from the installed Python binary.  For this to work,
 the python binary must be on your path.  If this fails, try

   make -f Makefile.pre.in Makefile VERSION=1.5 installdir=<prefix>

 where <prefix> is the prefix used to install Python for installdir
 (and possibly similar for exec_installdir=<exec_prefix>).

2) 
 Once the Makefile has been constructed, run "make" to compile the C modules.
 There's no test suite yet, but there will be one someday.

3)
 To install everything in the site-packages directory as an xml/ package, 
 run "make install".


If you have difficulty installing this software, send a problem report
to <xml-sig@python.org> describing the problem.


Software versions and credits:
	DOM v0.1 		Stefane Fermigier
	PyExpat 		Jack Jansen
	saxlib-1.0beta3		Lars Marius Garshol
	sgmlop-980519		Fredrik Lundh
	xmlproc 0.40		Lars Marius Garshol


