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Related Packages
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The following packages may be useful as an alternative to or used in
conjunction with PyXB:

- The `Zolera SOAP Infrastructure
  <http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/zsi.html>`_ is the backbone of the
  `Python Web Services <http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/>`_ project.  It is
  specifically intended to support web service interaction with SOAP and
  WSDL.  The primary purpose of ZSI is SOAP, but it generates bindings for
  some XML Schema constructs.

- `generateDS <http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/generateDS.html>`_ is an
  alternative package that is intended to do the same general thing as PyXB,
  though it uses a very different approach for extending bindings.

- The `Amara XML Toolkit <http://xml3k.org/Amara>`_ appears to be a fairly
  complete set of XML tools for Python evolved from the `4Suite
  <http://4suite.org/>`_ infrastructure.  Amara supports `binding an object
  to an existing XML document
  <http://xml3k.org/Amara2/Whatsnew#Creatingabinderydocumentfromscratch>`_
  and has references to `RELAX NG <http://relaxng.org/>`_ and `Schematron
  <http://www.schematron.com/>`_, but does not address `XML Schema
  <http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema>`_.