potential helpers: - https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict - https://github.com/trananhkma/fucking-awesome-python#text-processing - https://github.com/blaze/blaze (for catalog/analytics) - validation: https://github.com/pyeve/cerberus - testing (to replace nose): - https://github.com/CleanCut/green - pytest - mamba ("behavior driven")