The patent infringement suit that i4i brought against Microsoft has raised a few questions on how Workshare’s comparison software will be impacted.
Workshare’s comparison software has the ability to compare custom XML tags for both WordML (Word 2003) and DocX (Word 2007) XML formats. The removal of this functionality in Word will remove the capability for Workshare to compare the custom XML tags but it will still continue to compare the content within a tag. For example, Workshare will no longer be able to compare the tag change to </Matter Name> but will identify the content change within the tag as highlighted in the following text:
Original: <Matter Name>ABC Company</Matter Name>
Modified: <Matter Company>XYZ Organization</Matter Company>
Please note that Workshare will still handle and compare documents that contain custom XML in the manner described even if has been removed from Word functionality.
You can learn more about the patch that Microsoft released here.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to post a comment or contact customer support.