IBM and Oracle have posted an early draft specification of Java Specification Request (JSR) 225, XQuery API for Java™ (XQJ). Comments are due by July 9.
Altova has released XMLSPY 2004r4, a popular closed source XML editor for Windows. This release adds a free beer Home Edition and improves various features. The $499 payware professional edition adds numerous editing features including context sensitive entry, text folding, line numbers, spell checking, and so forth. It also adds XPath support, XSLT debugging, and XML differencing, integration with various databases, APIs for controlling XMLSpy from external programs, macros, and templates for various common DTDs like DocBook. The $999 payware enterprise edition adds various SOAP and WSDL features.