From the README: XML package v0.5.1 This is the third test release of the Python XML package. The distribution contains a validating XML parser, an implementation of the SAX and DOM programming interfaces, an interface to the Expat parser (and the Expat parser itself), and a C helper module that can speed up xmllib.py by a factor of 5. There's even documentation! WWW: http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/ -- Jacques Vidrine