Joe Schaefer wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed this? > > >http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=HTML&OS=HTML&RS=HTML > > A causal reading seems to suggest that most mod_perl-based > templating systems do exactly what this patent will cover: > i.e. set up a non-HTML based website where templates > dynamically convert non-HTML files into HTML. > > The patent was filed June 19, 1998: surely there must be > prior art out there? >
As Nathan suggested, this might be more relevant to a web editor like homestead.com (online or not) than to a templating system. If it does apply to a templating system, then certainly Embperl has prior art, whereas Apache::ASP v.01 was released a week after the filing of this patent, so I am not sure how prior art would apply in the latter case. I remember at the time of writing Apache::ASP, NetObjects Fusion was out for quite a while, and definitely had templates to choose from for site building, so that might establish prior art there. --Josh _________________________________________________________________ Joshua Chamas Chamas Enterprises Inc. NodeWorks Founder Huntington Beach, CA USA http://www.nodeworks.com 1-714-625-4051
