USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in 2023

Re:USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in... by jfk13 on Friday August 26, 2022 @03:27PM (#32611703)

So true. "It's XML, so it must easy to parse and manipulate" is such a naive, even misleading attitude. If what you do is take a byzantine, legacy-encrusted implementation and just serialise its data strucures to an XML representation, very little has been gained.

[edit: but I will grant that almost anything is better than attempting to parse useful content from PDF.]

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Re:USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in... by sidewndr46 on Friday August 26, 2022 @10:56PM (#32615189)

I had a CTO who told me that "anytime someone says something will be simple because it uses XML, just repeat what they said and use the word text instead of XML. Then tell me if it sounds smart."

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Re:USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in... by exikyut on Monday August 29, 2022 @11:07AM (#32639197)

*Uses regular expressions to parse binary XML*

In fairness though this a really good point.

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