The W3C XQuery working group has published one new and eleven updated working drafts. The new working draft is Building a Tokenizer for XPath or XQuery, a note that "describes possible strategies for tokenizing the [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0] and [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] languages, and is provided as a helpful guide to those who are designing an implementation for these languages, and as background material for the normative EBNF found in the language specifications."
Of the eleven updated working drafts, seven of them are in last call:
Comments on these are due by May 13. The other four not yet in last call are:
On first glance, changes since the February working drafts appear fairly minor and mostly editorial. One of the biggest substantive changes is that error handling is now more consistent across different XSLT 2 processors. Processors are less often allowed the option of whether or not to recover from an error. However at a user (as opposed to implementer) level, very little seems to have changed.
Planamesa Software has posted the release candidate of NeoOffice/J 1.1, a Mac OS X variant of OpenOffice that replaces X-Windows with Java Swing. This release is based on OpenOffice 1.1.4.