Article:		Wrap Your App
Subject:		Immediate need
Date:		2001-11-23 08:25:44
From:		Bruce Cox
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office built an XML-based authoring tool two years ago that, to avoid resource management issues, combined DTDs for a patent application, tables, and math into one single DTD. While more difficult to maintain, to have deployed the patent application DTD and the MathML and CALS table DTDs separately would have required a catalog (or equivalent) that could be made to work on anyone's desktop, which was much more work for end users and for us. Now, the USPTO, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, and World Intellectual Property Office, are developing electronic patent application authoring and filing tools from a jointly-developed set of DTDs that cannot use this simplistic approach. The resource management issue comes back to the front. We are about to develop and agree on specifications for our purposes, but would prefer to base what we do as much as possible on industry-wide practice. Whatever you folks come up with could be used, in short order, by all the world's patent applicants. Please hurry.

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  2001-11-23 08:27:13 Bruce Cox [Reply]
  
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