Daniel Veillard has released version 2.6.0 of libxml2, the XML C library for Gnome. This releases fixes assorted bugs, is smaller overall, and should run faster. It can now successfully handle my one-element parser breaking document at this URL. As far as I know, it's the first shipping parser to get this one right (though I haven't tested MSXML on this document yet).
Sun has released StarOffice 7.0, an $80 payware office suite for Windows, Linux, and Solaris based on the open source OpenOffice that uses XML as its native format. StarOffice includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, draweing program, and a database. It's available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. New features in version 7 include better filters for importing and exporting Microsoft Office documents, Flash and PDF export, and fonts for Asian languages such as Japanese and Chinese. Only electronic downloads are available at the moment. Boxed copies will be on store shelves in a few weeks.