This coming Monday, November 17, at 7:00 P.M. I'll be talking about XQuery at the meeting of the XML Special Interest Group in downtown Manhattan (Goldman Sachs, 180 Maiden Lane, Room 30C). The meeting is free, but preregistration is required to get through security. To reserve a place at this meeting, e-mail Walter Perry at wperry@xml-sig.org. Please register by Friday to guarantee admission.
Dave Malcolm has posted Conglomerate 0.7.6, an open source GUI XML editor for Linux written in C, and based on libxml2 and the GTk+ and Gnome libraries. This release works much better with non-Roman scripts. Conglomerate is published under the GPL.
Norman Walsh has posted the fifth beta of DocBook 4.3, the XML application I used to write Processing XML with Java. According to Walsh, "This version fixes some small bugs in the definition of firstterm." There's also a RELAX NG version.
IBM's alphaworks has updated its Web Services Tool Kit for Mobile Devices to support the Discovery Framework and Java APIs for processing WSIL documents. This tookit also supports WCE and SMF environments (whatever those are). However, it only supports a subset of SOAP 1.1. 2.1.0 also drops support for kSOAP and Blackberry.