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  1. Comment - Microsoft's move toward XML standards leads to $200 million penalty

    (May 21, 2009 - 8:02 PM)

    IN the previous comment, I attempted to use XML markup but it was removed. Should be something like ". . . we need a {chapter} tag. . ." ; "you could change {chapter} to {section}. . ."

  2. Comment - Microsoft's move toward XML standards leads to $200 million penalty

    (May 21, 2009 - 7:59 PM)

    Your article suggests that i4i proposed to patent something like XML, but from what I can gather reading the patent, that's not accurate. XML (or rather SGML) simply provides their illustrative example. The patent proposes to parse a marked-up document in such a way that the markup instructions are stored separately from the document text. The markup instructions in one file are keyed to the text in another file by keeping track of the character position in the text where a markup is needed. Thus the markup file says "at character 0 in the text file we need a tag" (or whatever markup convention you want). This allows the markup file to managed completely separately from the text. For example, you could change to without even opening the text file.