After lots of user requests, I’ve created a separate project for the Irrlicht Engine xml parser. I extended it with lots of new features and bugfixes. I named it irrXML and created an own homepage for it. It is now completely independent of the Irrlicht Engine but still has all the nice features which made it popular. If you are searching for a descent, small, fast and simple xml parser, take a look at it.
And of course, all the features in irrXML will be in the next Irrlicht Engine releases. In fact, the whole irrXML SDK is being automaticly created from my Irrlicht development version with a click on single batch file which just copies files, runs doxygen, etc.

Another note: irrLua 0.1 has been released. It is an attempt to provide a nice lua front end to the Irrlicht engine. The current version is only set up to build under linux, at the moment. Linked this from the link page