Tom Bradford has posted the first release candidate of dbXML 2.0, an open source native XML database written in Java and published under the GNU General Public License. New features in version 2.0 include:
Java 1.4 is required. Changes since the last beta include reverting the paging system o standard Java I/O, UTF-8 support, and an improved administrator tool
Dave Beckett has released the Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 1.3.2, an open source C library for parsing the RDF/XML and N-Triples Resource Description Framework formats. It uses expat or libxml2 as the underlying XML parser. Version 1.32 fixes some bugs and makes some changes to the build process. Raptor is published under the LGPL.
John Krasnay has released Vex 1.0, an open source (LGPL) XML editor that features a word processor-like interface. Vex is based on the Eclipse platform. It supports DocBook 4.1.2, 4.2, 4.3, Simplified DocBook 1.0, and XHTML 1.0 Strict and can be configured for other DTDs.