XML mit XIST - Internationale Anerkennung für Basistechnologie - das Magazin xml.com berichtet

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Das Internet-Magazin xml.com berichtet über XIST als Basistechnologie für XML: Writing and Reading XML with XIST. Wir freuen uns sehr, dass die Engine zur XML Transformation XIST als ausgereift und empfehlenswert international anerkannt ist.

Auszüge aus dem englischen Orginal-Bericht March 16, 2005 - in Englisch

Orginaltitel: Writing and Reading XML with XIST
Autor: Uche Ogbuji

XIST is a very interesting project I've been meaning to dig into for some time. If you've been following the news section at the end of each of these columns, you'll have noticed the steady work that Walter Dörwald, the project leader, has put into this toolkit.

It started out as a framework for generating HTML and incidentally XML, but the XML facilities have steadily grown and matured, until it is now a sophisticated system for not only generating, but also processing, XML.

[...]XIST isn't one of those projects you hear loudly advocated and debated when Python/XML processing options come up, but it probably should be.

XPath & XIST

XIST also takes advantage of Python's operator overloading to support a language in some ways like XPath, but given as Python expressions rather than strings (Unicode objects, to be precise). This language is called XFind. [...] Many people have called for such a pure Python take on XPath, and it looks as if XIST is well on its way down this road.

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Wrap Up

It's surprising that XIST is such a dark horse. It has been around for a long time. It has a lot of very original and interesting capabilities. It's pretty well documented, and has a mature feel about it. [...] Based on my experimentation, it is definitely worth serious consideration when you're looking for a Python-esque XML processing toolkit. [...] I should also mention that there is a lot more to XIST that I was able to cover in this article. I didn't touch on its support for different HTML and XHTML vocabularies, XML namespaces, XML entities, validation and content models, tree modification, pretty printing, image manipulation, and more.

Stimme eines Anwenders aus einer Mailinglisten-Konversation zu XIST

In der Konversation werden unterschiedliche Ansätze für die XML-Transformation erörtert und XIST als die richtige Lösung empfohlen.

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Wow! XIST is very elegant. Perfectly designed for what it is supposed to do.

"XIST is an extensible HTML/XML generator written in Python."

I guess there isn't much point in "fixing" the pyXML XHTMLPrinter when something as cool as XIST exists (pun intended).

Kid also seems really neat. I like the TAL like features. However, it seems less mature than XIST.

There seems to be lots of functionality crossover between the two but it is good that there is enough demand for XML output functionality in python to support two distinct modules.

Thanks Everyone!,
Derek Basch

XIST ist DIE Basisinfrastruktur hinter den LivingLogic Produkten

Das XML Web Content Management System XIST4C, der Online-Shop LivingShop, das Web Application Framework LivingWAF und viele kleine Werkzeuge für die generative Programmierung — alle nutzen XIST als Basistechnologie. Damit wird eine hohe Effizienz erreicht. Jede Aufgabe wird nur einmal angepackt und die Lösung immer wieder verwendet — automatisiert durch XIST. Die erreichte Produktivität ist hervorragend: Ein CMS, oder ein Online-Shop in wenigen Tagen anpassen oder gar eine komplette individuelle Branchenlösung für einen mittelständischen Betrieb in nur 14 Tagen bereit zu stellen, das gelingt mit Hilfe von XIST, der Basistechnologie für XML von LivingLogic.