Not only <scriptdef>. You can do the same (storing) with
<target name="" description="">
<script language="">
<![CDATA[
]]>
</script>
</target>
Does the ASF have a layer to check that?
Jan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antoine L�vy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:14 PM
> To: Ant Developers List
> Subject: Re: Microsoft XML scripting patent
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >>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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 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.
>
> 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=HIT
> OFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=pt
> xt&s1=XML.ABST.&s2=Microsoft.ASNM.&OS=ABST/XML+AND+AN/Microsof
t&RS=ABST/XML+AND+AN/Microsoft
> ....
> 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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