My email to IPONZ, Also sent an email to a robin cover aurthor/editor of SGML website.
hope this helps in convincing the IPONZ to turn the appicaltion down. Sir, After being alerted to this application and reading the article in the NZ Herald I wish to express my concerns about the company (Microsoft) being granted the permit. I hope that if you look at the history on this matter (XML) you will be able to see that this is a subset of a much large piece of work called SGML. below is an excerpt from the website of SGML �(www.sgml.org) quote: Both SGML and XML are "meta" languages because they are used for defining markup languages. A markup language defined using SGML or XML has a specific vocabulary (labels for elements and attributes) and a declared syntax (grammar defining the hierarchy and other features). Conceived notionally in the 1960s - 1970s, the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML, ISO 8879:1986) gave birth to a profile/subset called the Extensible Markup Language (XML), published as a W3C Recommendation in 1998. Depending upon your perspective and requirements, the differences between SGML and XML are inconsequential or immense. unquote. I would also like to highlight the dates to which SGML was "conceived" in the quoted piece above as being in the 1960s - 1970s. I wish to ask you if Microsoft as a company was involved in any part of the development of either SGML _or_ XML. further to my arguement that this should be Mircosoft should be stopped from getting the patent is another exert from SGML website (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml.html for more details). I hope hear that the IPONZ refuses Microsofts request for a patent on this matter. -- Dave Lilley -- Dave Lilley
