Re: [xml-dev] Invoices (was Re: [xml-dev] XML's greatest cultural advantage over JSON)

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John Cowan <>
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Stephen D Green <>
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2013-04-11T14:44:03Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Invoices (was Re: [xml-dev] XML's greatest cultural advantage over JSON)
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Stephen D Green <[email protected]> wrote:

I just thought how it might need to be a bit more
complex than MCE for financial and business documents
like invoices (I just hope noone rushes off and patents
this...)

Nobody can patent it now that you've put it into the public domain (in the patent sense, meaning you have published it in the open literature).

- it might be necessary to have a way to say in
what context something is 'MustUnderstand', such as
'CalculationMustUnderstand' as distinct from
'GoodsDescriptionMustUnderstand'.

Well, that's it, but where do you stop?  What I must understand to do what I want with a document has nothing to do with what you must understand to do what you want.   And perhaps neither of us have purposes that were foreseen by the publisher.

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