Merge branch 'release-2.9.0'2.9.0

* release-2.9.0: (158 commits)
  Bump version to 2.9.0
  Added underlying DynamoDB v2 support.
  Add redshift to setup.py/docs index
  Updated requests to something more modern.
  Only use 2 metadata service calls to get credentials
  Fix #1146: return response from custom url opener
  Fixed missing import.
  Add metadata_service_num_attempts config option
  Added cleanup for the snapshots created.
  Added support for redshift.
  Let total attempts by 1 + num_retries
  Add more diagnostics to debug logs
  Change GS calls to make_request to always convert to utf-8 bytes.
  Allow kwargs to be passed through to uplaoder
  Remove whitespace, fix long line lengths
  Improve VPC and VPN support
  Added sleeps to allow amazon time to propogate
  Added error handling for out of space during downloads
  Initial integration tests for idempotent subscribe
  Removed dead code from resumable upload handler
  ...

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diff --git a/boto/handler.py b/boto/handler.py
index 8f37dff1..df065cca 100644
--- a/boto/handler.py
+++ b/boto/handler.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 # OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
 # IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
+import StringIO
 import xml.sax
 
 class XmlHandler(xml.sax.ContentHandler):
@@ -42,3 +43,14 @@ class XmlHandler(xml.sax.ContentHandler):
 
     def characters(self, content):
         self.current_text += content
+
+
+class XmlHandlerWrapper(object):
+    def __init__(self, root_node, connection):
+        self.handler = XmlHandler(root_node, connection)
+        self.parser = xml.sax.make_parser()
+        self.parser.setContentHandler(self.handler)
+        self.parser.setFeature(xml.sax.handler.feature_external_ges, 0)
+
+    def parseString(self, content):
+        return self.parser.parse(StringIO.StringIO(content))