What is this fork for?:
Essentially the exact same reasoning as Jon discusses below, but with the intention of having a PyPI-published copy available.
pip install PyXB-X
Currently, python setup.py test fails on Python 3.8+. This is a false failure caused by changes to the toxml method (https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.dom.minidom.html#xml.dom.minidom.Node.toxml).
In Python 3.8+ toxml preserves the original element order, which the current tests do not assume. Since < 3.8 produces a slightly different, but equally valid output, we can't easily just change the unit tests to match.
This is something I'll work on sorting out soon.
Jon Foster (upstream) PyXB README follows:
What is this fork for?:
At work, I use a few closed-source tools that use PyXB - some of which I maintain. This repository has the necessary patches to make PyXB work for me.
I don't have the time, inclination or the knowledge of PyXB's internals to be a proper open-source maintainer for PyXB. This fork is just getting bugfixes as I need them. I will accept small pull requests that fix bugs, but not anything big or risky or hard-to-test. I have no interest in doing formal public releases or submitting this to PyPy.
My experience is that PyXB is very complex and seriously lacking documentation, and does not have a stable API, but it can be made to work with some trial-and-error. The concept is great, and it works, and I'm not aware of anything better (though I haven't looked for a couple of years).
-- Jon Foster
Original (upstream) PyXB README follows:
The source releases includes pre-built bundles for common XML namespaces, assorted web service namespaces, and SAML. A bundle with over 75 namespaces related to Geographic Information Systems is also available; if you want those, read pyxb/bundles/opengis/README.txt before installing PyXB.
Installation: python setup.py install
Documentation: doc/html or https://pabigot.github.io/pyxb/
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