Excuse me? A patent on XML? How this one plays out will be interesting (and a bit scary) to watch. I certainly don't plan on stopping the use of XML any time soon. I'll leave it up to the big software giants to battle this one out, if it even goes so far.

Two patents were referenced: 5,842,213 and 6,393,426. Reading patents tends to make my head hurt, especially the more generic and all encompassing they attempt to be, as both of these after a quick read of the claims seem to be.