[PLUG] (OT).. Microsoft patents XML word processing documents

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Discussions, brainstorming welcome!!

The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application,
7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing
document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an
application that understands XML, or to enable another application or
service to create a rich document in XML so that the word-processing
application can open it as if it was one of its own documents. "

The patent, filed in December 2004 and granted on August 4 2009,
specifies that this is done using an XML Schema Document (XSD), which
contains more information about the document's formatting, and also
covers systems that can open the document without using the original
word processing software.

Read more here:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-329645.html?tag=nl.e539

--Sudhanwa

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