• From: "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@v...>
• To: XMLDev list <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:12:29 -0500

Seems to me that by the statement "XPointer is affected by a
technology patent held by Sun Microsystems.", the XPointer
spec is assuming the validity of the patent.   Couldn't W3C
cover its backside without endorsing the patent by replacing
"is" by "might be"?

Paul Abrahams

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