John Cowan has posted the second release candidate of TagSoup, an open source, Java-language, SAX parser for nasty, ugly HTML. I use TagSoup to convert JavaDoc to well-formed XHTML. Cowan writes, "This is not really a 'release candidate', but rather a set of bug fixes to TagSoup 1.0rc1. There are still some known problems in it, but they seem to appear only in very pathological input, like randomly generated HTML. I decided to release this version now in order to get the bug fixes to people who've been asking for them. Please upgrade and report on any problems you find." TagSoup is dual licensed under the Academic Free License and the GPL.
Sun has posted version 0.3.1 of xmlroff, an open source XSL Formatting Objects to PDF converter. xmlroff is written in C for Linux, and relies on the libxml2, libxslt, and the GLib, GObject and Pango libraries from GTK+ and GNOME (though neither GTK+ nor Gnome is required). It also needs PDFlib, FreeType2, and Fontconfig. xmlroff can be run from the command line. It also includes a libfo library. "0.3.1 is a maintenance release that adds improved documentation and minor bug fixes."