• To: "Xml-Dev@Lists. Xml. Org" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Patent on XML and XSLT together?
• From: "Phil Fuhlman" <pfuhlman@D...>
• Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:00:40 -0600
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• Thread-topic: Patent on XML and XSLT together?

FWIW, that link is to a / the European patent admin site, not the US
patent office...

-----Original Message-----
From: David LeBlanc [mailto:whisper@o...]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:12 PM
To: Xml-Dev@Lists. Xml. Org
Subject:  Patent on XML and XSLT together?


This was claimed as something Sun is trying to do:

http://l2.espacenet.com/dips/viewer?PN=WO0163481&;CY=ep&LG=en&DB=EPD

Basically if you chose a stylesheet to transform your xml based on
browser
type or some (any?) other criteria, you'd be in violation of this patent
if
it becomes one. Originally seen on the axkit.org "daily churn".

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA


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