Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Martin Sawicki

Brian M Jones

Robert Andrew Little

Andrew K Bishop

Edgar Mark Sunderland

Katsuhiro Alex Namba

Regions within editable objects of electronic document can be defined such that specific editing permissions can be granted to specific users for specific regions. The regions can be expressed in a ML format such that a variety of applications that consume ML content can operate in accordance with the granted permissions.

Representing user edit permission of regions within an electronic document

The present invention is directed towards providing mixed content flexibility for word-processing document in an XML (or ML) file format. Mixed content can be provided within an XML file such that validation of the file will not produce errors even when an associated schema does not recognize the text. Additionally, the XML (or ML) file can be output such that the mixed content does not appear in the output file.

Mixed content flexibility for XML editors

The present invention is directed towards representing the native document settings of an application in a markup language such as XML. Applications that are capable of parsing the markup language are then able to parse the saved document settings and handle the document accordingly. Document settings saved in XML are human-readable, which simplifies maintenance of the document by humans.

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Martin Sawicki