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Re:USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in... by 0x457 on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:27PM (#32613931)
Why not make yet another XML standard for patents and generate PDFs from it?
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Re:USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in... by moistly on Friday August 26, 2022 @10:56PM (#32615191)
Or just use Docbook and the standard, open pipelines for publication to print and web.
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Re:USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in... by 0x457 on Saturday August 27, 2022 @08:26PM (#32624580)
I was saying it half-sarcastically because of how many "universal" XML standards are out there and how useless they are.

I wrote DDEX parsers in the past and I wish it never existed...

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