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Christian RothOct 24, 2006 2:04 am 
Jirka KosekOct 24, 2006 5:03 am.bin
Subject:Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSLs affected by patent 7089492?
From:Jirka Kosek (jir@kosek.cz)
Date:Oct 24, 2006 5:03:52 am
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Christian Roth wrote:

I accidentally stumbled upon this today:

<http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7089492.html>

which seems to claim a patent on converting CALS tables to accessible HTML tables, though it claims to do this *not solely* based on XSLT.

Could the DocBook XSLs (specifically e.g. the HTML export) be affected in any way by this?

Given the fact that this patent was submitted in 2003 and it is easy to prove that we had code for CALS->HTML several years before 2003 I think that this patent is completely irrelevant.

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