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Story: EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument

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Microsoft just paid (23-06-2006) the renewal fee for their "OpenXML" patent. It should be important for the Commission to know how MS intends to use this patent if it gets granted.

EP1271339 - Method for generic object oriented description of structured data (GDL)

Claim 1.

A method for use in a computing system for organizing and describing information pertaining to one or more subjects comprising:

providing a source file, said source file including a plurality of entries characterizing the subject, wherein said entries are an instantiation of an inheritance-based schema and conform to a predefined meta-language syntax;

providing a schema, said schema comprising one or more families of templates, each template defining one or more properties of a set of entries, the templates in each family related by inheritance;

associating one or more entries with an appropriate template of a family, thereby allowing such entries to be also associated with other ancestral templates in the same family.

http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1271339

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