Windows users should get the precompiled version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxml; Mac users will use the corresponding precompiled version at XXX. Linux users may wish to use either the Debian package from XXX, or the RPM from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxml. To compile from source on a Unix platform, simply perform the following steps.
gzip -dc xml-package.tgz | tar -xvf -
python setup.py install
To properly execute this operation, a C compiler is required - the
same that was used to build Python itself. On a Unix system, this
operation may require superuser permissions. setup.py
supports
a number of different commands and options, invoke setup.py
without any arguments to obtain help.
If you have difficulty installing this software, send a problem report to <xml-sig@python.org> describing the problem, or submit a bug report at http://sourceforget.net/projects/pyxml.
There are various demonstration programs in the demo/ directory of the source distribution. You may wish to look at them next to get an impression of what's possible with the XML tools, and as a source of example code.