XML is a four-letter word with Alan J. Porter
Updated: Thu Mar 14 2019
Alan J. Porter, Head of Strategic Services Practice at [A], talks to Ed Marsh about why tech writers are now content engineers, why metadata is important, what it’s like to document massive hardware, and more.

Alan is also an accomplished author and critic of comics, pop culture, sci-fi, and more.
Mentioned during this episode
- XyWrite
- Grif
- S1000D
- Circuit of the Americas
- Word2DITA plug-in by Eliot Kimber
- Caterpillar
- Concorde
- Alan’s Open Wheel podcast
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