Should I be fearful when I (or my programs) generate XML code?
1) XML isn't code, it's a data markup convention.
2) MS has no ownership in XML itself.
3) MS (or someone else) might have patents applicable to specific uses
of XML, to the same extent that they might have patents applicable to
that applciation if its data was kept in some other representation.
In other words, XML shouldn't make you any more fearful than anything
else does. Or any less; your C/Java/C++ code might also infringe
someone's patent.
--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden
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