The Gnome Project has released version 2.6.17 of libxml2, the open source XML C library for Gnome. This release fixes various bugs. It also makes some improvements to W3C XML schema and Python support, and adds a few bits and pieces to the API.
Ian E. Gorman has released GXParse 1.6, a free (LGPL) Java library that sits on top of a SAX parser and provides semi-random access to the XML document. The documentation isn't very clear, but as near as I can tell, it buffers various constructs like elements until their end is seen, rather than dumping pieces on you immediately like SAX does. This release adds documentation and example code. Internally, the code has been refactored somewhat.