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+The PyXML package is a collection of libraries to process XML with Python. It
+contains, among other things
+
+ xmlproc: a validating XML parser.
+ sgmlop: a C helper module that can speed-up xmllib.py and sgmllib.py by a
+ factor of 5.
+ PySAX: SAX 1 and SAX2 libraries with drivers for most of the parsers.
+ 4DOM: A fully compliant DOM Level 2 implementation
+ javadom: An adapter from Java DOM implementations to the standard Python
+ DOM binding.
+ pulldom: a DOM implementation that supports lazy instantiation of nodes.
+ marshal: a module with several options for serializing Python objects to
+ XML, including WDDX and XML-RPC.
+ unicode: a helper module for Python 1.5 users who need conversions between
+ UTF-8 and ISO-8859-?.