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Dear pyxser users, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve released pyxser-1.3r. The current ChangeLog for this release is as follows (Update: There was bug in the pyxser-1.3r release, it is patched and working in pyxser-1.3r-p1):

pyxser, my Python-Object to XML serialization/deserialization extension — completely written in C — that can be used at least in a lot of kinds of object communications and object storage tasks. Since it is not a binary serializer, you can handle the serialized objects with a lot of available APIs. In this post I will explain how to work with pyxser and the ZSI Python framework to work with WebServices.

The past October 9, I’ve presented pyxser at the JRSL’09 — Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre — event. The assistance to the event was relatively poor in quantity, but strong in quality. The presentation itself was a conversation and interactive presentation for a small group, with continuous questions and explanations on how to work with pyxser, and how pyxser works. I’ve decided to publish the pyxser paper, presentation and demos, plus an explanation on this article about the presentation.

Today I’ve released pyxser-1.2r my Python Object to XML serializer/deserializer. To get more information about this project, visit the pyxser web page. This release has with byte string encoding for Unicode strings. This means that all Unicode strings are serialized in a human readable form, and also a better form to use pyxser with other platforms, since the encoding regards a better interoperability with byte encoded string handlers.

pyxser is a Python-Object to XML serializer and deserializer. The common serialization model that follows most object-to-xml serialization implementations, are doing it in the same way. Most of them — possibly all of them — are doing the same task: they create a custom XML element (a custom tag) for every object. By custom XML element, I understand an element named MyObject for every object (class instance) of the type MyObject, without considering its namespace and other proper attributes that a well structured serialization needs.