[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The example provided on the web page showing MS's patent show an xml file containing a .bat file and a .vbs script, both rewritten in some xml format.So, it sound not like a pattent on scripting, but on
how to store collections of scripts in one file and being
able to execute them.
<target> as collection of scripts?
Jan
As someone else wrote, it is a little bit like an ant script with several scriptdefs in it.
The MS patent talks about specific XML elements :
<collection>
<file extension=".bat">
.... commands
</file>
....
</collection>I do not know whether their patent only applies to XML scripts written using this particular schema ? Or does the patent claim to protect *all* use of XML for scripts, and particularly this particular document structure ?
Antoine
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=XML.ABST.&s2=Microsoft.ASNM.&OS=ABST/XML+AND+AN/Microsoft&RS=ABST/XML+AND+AN/Microsoft
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19. In a computer system having one or more scripts written in one or more scripting languages, a computer readable having stored thereon a data structure for encompassing the one or more scripts into a single file, the data structure comprising:
a file element field for each of the one or more scripts, wherein each file element field delimits one of the one or more scripts;
an extension attribute field included in each file element field, wherein the extension attribute field identifies a scripting language;
a code element field included within each file element field, wherein the code element field contains script instructions in the scripting language identified in the extension attribute field;
a name element field within each file element field, wherein the name element field contains a descriptive name; and
a description element field within each file element field, wherein the description element field contains a functional description.
wherein the data structure is configured to be parsed by a parser into a list for presentation to a user and that includes an identifier for each of the one or more scripts, the identifier comprising the descriptive name and functional description of each script.
20. A data structure as defined in claim 19, further comprising a CDATA element field within the code element field, wherein the CDATA element field precludes data within the CDATA element field from being recognized as a format of the data structure.
21. A data structure as defined in claim 19, wherein the file elements for the one or more scripts are delimited by a collection element, wherein the collection element is a root of the file.
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