by Don Park
at 2003/11/06 01:14:41
StAX (Streaming API for XML) was recently approved and implementations are starting to emerge from BEA, Oracle, and Sun, but I just noticed that a patent application has been filed by Chris Fry, an employee of BEA and the StAX spec lead at JCP (Java Community Process), on November 26 of last year.
Given that streaming XML parser implementations have been around way before that and well publicized, I am somewhat confused by this patent. Can someone, preferably Chris, shed some light here?
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As I understand it, a "streaming" parser is what is sometimes called a "pull parser", where the caller asks for parse events rather than being called for parse events as in SAX.
Which is why I am puzzled by the patent application.
I'm in favor of patents (although believe term limits are necessary and copyright terms need reduced in this day-and-age).
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