Building XML Applications with Scripts

Quick and Functional Scripts make the same promises for XML that they make elsewhere: easy, quick, functional. Not necessarily robust or efficient, but if development time counts more than processing time...
How scalable? Depending on the situation, scripts may be completely appropriate for application-building. Lightweight processing or simple repetitive tasks are often prime candidates for scripting. Applications that need to keep track of enormous quantities of information are rarely good candidates for scripting.
Utilities or heavy-duty Scripts' quick-and-dirty nature makes them ideal tools for tasks like pruning XML document trees or performing simple search, replace, and transformation activities.
Zope as the large-scale exception Zope is an enormous project designed for fairly large-scale work where Python plays a central role.