Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSLs affected by patent 7089492?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

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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