Comment Re:not a patent of XML (Score 1) 441
well, it is likely more general than just xml, but it uses xml as an example of "one embodiment" of the "invention." this is a typical construction and i expect this is what they've used to construct the (granted) application.
if they went for a more broad patent (encapsulating multiple language scripts in a single file) i've been doing this in shell
scripts for years. it is trivial (and not novel anymore) to use bits of Bourne (or other) shell to delimit other scripts in different languages such as awk. Not as easy as with XML, perhaps, but still possible, is not only using the script as a single unit but writing another script to extract only the wanted parts from the shell script. In fact... I've seen examples of this but I've never done it myself.
That may be sufficient prior art to deal with potential situations where this patent were ever asserted in court.
Of course, IANAL and I didn't read more than the abstract here, because I don't want to know. :)
if they went for a more broad patent (encapsulating multiple language scripts in a single file) i've been doing this in shell
scripts for years. it is trivial (and not novel anymore) to use bits of Bourne (or other) shell to delimit other scripts in different languages such as awk. Not as easy as with XML, perhaps, but still possible, is not only using the script as a single unit but writing another script to extract only the wanted parts from the shell script. In fact... I've seen examples of this but I've never done it myself.
That may be sufficient prior art to deal with potential situations where this patent were ever asserted in court.
Of course, IANAL and I didn't read more than the abstract here, because I don't want to know.
