Chapter 3. Installing the XML Package
The core Python 1.5.2 distribution ships with XML support in the form of a library known as xmllib—a simple, small, nonvalidating XML parser written in Python by Sjoerd Mullender. However, the bulk of the XML support for Python is in an add-on package developed and maintained by Python's XML special interest group (Python XML-SIG http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/). It is this add-on package that we are most interested in, so let's get it up and running on your machine.
For your convenience, compiled distributions of the XML package for both Windows and Linux are supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM.
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