"""Core XML support for Python. This package contains four sub-packages: dom -- The W3C Document Object Model. This supports DOM Level 1 + Namespaces. parsers -- Python wrappers for XML parsers (currently only supports Expat). sax -- The Simple API for XML, developed by XML-Dev, led by David Megginson and ported to Python by Lars Marius Garshol. This supports the SAX 2 API. etree -- The ElementTree XML library. This is a subset of the full ElementTree XML release. """ __all__ = ["dom", "parsers", "sax", "etree"] _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION = (0, 8, 4) try: import _xmlplus except ImportError: pass else: try: v = _xmlplus.version_info except AttributeError: # _xmlplus is too old; ignore it pass else: if v >= _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION: import sys _xmlplus.__path__.extend(__path__) sys.modules[__name__] = _xmlplus else: del v