Effect of the patent ruling on word's ability to store custom XML

[Andy Fish]

Hi,

I have been reading about the i4i patent ruling and the patch that is
shortly to be released for Word 2007, but I'm still not clear on the answer
to what I believe is a fairly straightforward question:

if a document contains custom XML (in my case, put there by a server
application) and I open it in the new "crippled" version of office 2007 (with
no add-ins installed) and then save it again, will the custom XML be
preserved or will it have been stripped out.

Most discussion I have seen says that the only feature that's been removed
is the facility to *edit* the custom XML in word, but the spiel about the
patch itself says that "...any Custom XML elements will be removed..."