I've returned safely from Amsterdam. I'll be playing catch-up over the next few days. Updates will remain slow for a while though while I catch up with various work that was sidelined while I was away, including reviewing the latest SAX pre-release, packaging up the SAX conformance test suite for release, and finishing the next editions of a couple of books.
The XML Apache Project has released XMLBeans 1.0.2, one of many XML data binding frameworks for Java. This one is based on the W3C XML Schema Language and also provides access to the full underlying XML Infoset through an XML Cursor API. It's not immediately clear what's changed in 1.0.2. One assumes this is a bug fix release.