As usually happens once I announce one of my books here, Amazon completely sold out their initial shipment of the XML 1.1 Bible as soon as it arrived at their warehouses. The publisher is shipping them more, and it should be available very soon. It should not take the "3 to 5 weeks" Amazon is currently listing on their web site before more copies arrive. In the meantime, I've posted the usual five sample chapters:
The XPointers chapter has changed the most since the Gold edition to bring it in line with the final XPointer recommendations, but the other four chapters have been cleaned up and rewritten as well.
These were all originally written using Wiley's rather unusual Word stylesheet. (For instance, inline code is identified with strike through rather than monospace.) I cleaned that up some in Word, then saved the files as HTML, and finally did a lot of grepping to try to clean up Word's horrific HTML; but it's still pretty ugly and malformed if you view source. If you notice anything that seems out of sorts formatting wise when reading these chapters, please drop me a line and I'll try to clean it up by hand.
The XML Apache Project has released Xalan-Java 2.6.0, an open source XSLT processor.This release improves compatibility with Java 1.5, upgrades Xerces to 2.6.2, and fixes various bugs.
JAPISoft has released EditiX 1.1, a $39 payware XML editor written in Java. Features include XPath location and syntax error detection, context sensitive popups based on DTD, W3C XML Schema Language, and RelaxNG schemas, and XSLT and XSL-FO previews. Version 1.1 can generate DTDs or W3C XML Schemas from an instance document, supports drag and drop, and fixes several bugs.