Costin Manolache wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not only <scriptdef>. You can do the same (storing) with <target name="" description=""> <script language=""> <![CDATA[ ]]> </script> </target>
Exactly, the patent descibes the contents of the ant "script" manual page:
http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/script.html
Peter
And on [1] you can see, that´s very old. First version on that location
is from Feb 2001, ANT_13_BRANCH and I think you can find older one...
The version from Feb 2001 [2] contains all these infos I used in the example.
It seems to be filed in 2000 ( Dec ), so feb 2001 is not old enough for prior art.
The first version of the script task was committed in / Mar 19, 2000.
Peter /
I think JSP have used scriptlets before 2000 - but with <%, not proper XML, and only one language. However I remember variants of JSP using <script language="">, with javascript or some other languages.
I don't remember when I've seen the first demo of JSPs using javascript and VB ( Sam Ruby may know - he was there :-), it should be about the same time.
It seems like yet another broad patent on common technology...
Maybe Conor could ask the board ?
Costin
Jan
[1]
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/script.html
[2]
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/s
cript.html?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.1.2.1
Does the ASF have a layer to check that?
Jan
-----Original Message----- From: Antoine Lévy-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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