Python XML processing with lxml

See Section 15.5, “rnck: fatal()”.

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def usage ( *L ) :
    '''Write an error message and terminate.

      [ L is a list of strings ->
          sys.stderr  +:=  (concatenation of elements of L)
          stop execution ]
    '''
    fatal ( "*** Usage:\n"
            "***   %s SCHEMA FILE ...\n"
            "*** %s" %
            (sys.argv[0], ''.join(L)) )
    raise SystemExit