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Story: Possible prior art for Microsoft XML patent found

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Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 3 June 2005, 5:08 PM)

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Yet another prior art from 1998:
http://www.xml.com/pub/r/502

WDDX (Web Distributed Data eXchange)

Date: Sep. 17, 1998

Link: http://www.wddx.org

Source Author or Organization: Allaire Corporation

WDDX stands for Web Distributed Data eXchange. WDDX is a technology for exchanging complex data structures between programming languages. It has been designed with web applications in mind. WDDX consists of a standard for language-independent representation of instantiated data based on XML 1.0 and a set of serializer/deserializer modules for every language/technology that uses WDDX.

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