The OpenOffice Project has posted the fifth release candidate of OpenOffice 1.1, an open source office suite for Linux and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. I used the previous 1.0 version to write Effective XML (which should be arriving in stores any day now, really. I apologize to anybody who ordered it earlier. I got my first copy last week, and I don't know why the stores don't have it yet. I am checking with my publisher. :-( ) According to the announcement, "The build includes bug fixes and is speedier and more robust. No new features have been introduced since RC4. Just bug fixes. We thank you for helping us find and fix them; the work the user community has done has been invaluable. And you should continue with that work. RC5 is very close to finished but it really needs for people to test it and find any flaws that may exist. Please download it, use it, and if you come across something, file a bug report "
Uche Ogbuji has posted Anobind 0.6.0, an open source data binding API for Python. Anobind converts an XML document into a data structure of corresponding Python objects. Anobind is driven by a declarative rules that describe how the XML is bound to the Python objects. Anobind published under the 4Suite variant of the Apache license. It requires Python 2.2.2 and 4Suite 1.0a3.
Alexandre Brilliant has released JXMLPad 1.9.4, a €90 shareware JavaBean component for editing XML. Java 1.2 or later is required.