Re: [xml-dev] Invoices (was Re: [xml-dev] XML's greatest culturaladvanta

[John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com> 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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