worldwide? Yes, I'd say that's pretty much the M.O.
Usually,I wouldn't defend them, but in this case, I think it's a garbage patent. It's like patenting the ability of round objects to roll. I don't think anything associated with or built on top of an open specification like XML should be patentable.
The case boils down to this:
"Data should be self describing, oh but, you can't actually *do* anything with the data, or you're violating i4i's patent on self-defining data in things that are *useful*"
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