Slahsdot's posted a review of Effective XML. The comments are mostly insightful. They've already given me one idea for another book. I'm in the process of reading through them all and responding right now. If anyone cares to moderate my comments up so they'll be seen, it would be appreciated. Bottom line: they like the book, and Natalie Portman can pour hot grits down my pants. :-)
Release early and release often. I've posted the second alpha of the XQuisitor GUI XQuery tool. Alpha 2 adds a Query menu, provides more mnemonics, and cleans up the user interface a tad, and fixes a couple of bugs.
The Ginger Alliance has released Sablotron 1.0.1, an open source XML processor for C++ has been released. Sablotron supports XSLT 1.0, XPath 1.0, DOM Level 2, and some extension functions from EXSLT. Sablotron is dual licensed under the the Mozilla Public License 1.1 and the GNU General Public License (GPL). It should run on most modern Windows and Unixes.