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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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