XProc 3.0 Built-in Steps

Erik Siegel, the author of XProc 3.0 Programmer Reference, has created a website that provides an extensive description of the XProc 3.0 steps. The site provides detailed descriptions, examples, and error codes for the steps. It is a work in progress that now covers about half of the steps, and it is being updated and […]

LavaCon 2024

Banner for the LavaCon conference.

LavaCon 2024 will be held October 27-30 in Portland, Oregon. This year, LavaCon features presentations by XML Press authors Scott Abel, Rahel Bailie, Kit Brown-Hoekstra, Alan Porter, Val Swisher, and Noz Urbina, as well as many other top names in content strategy, technical communication, and management.

This year, the theme is Content as a Business […]

Intelligent Content: A Primer featured in Books that ROC!! on January 18, 2024

The Society for Technical Communication (STC) Rochester chapter is featuring Intelligent Content: A Primer, by Ann Rockley, Charles Cooper, and Scott Abel, in the latest edition of its discussion series about technical communications books.

This virtual event is Thursday, January 18 2024 at 6pm EST.

You can sign up for a free ticket at […]

The Language of Learning Website

The Language of Learning website is up and running as of today. Every week for the next year, we bring you a new term related to education and learning.

You can also get the full book right now at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshop.org. You can also buy the ebook bundle (ePub, Kindle, […]

The Language of Learning now available

The latest book in the Content Wrangler Content Strategy Book Series, The Language of Learning, compiled and edited by Phylise Banner and Dawn J. Mahoney, is now available at retailers worldwide, including Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and the XML Press eBook Store.

The Language of Learning introduces the field of education to business professionals […]

Content Audits and Inventories, 2nd edition

The second edition of Content Audits and Inventories: A Handbook for Content Analysis, by veteran content strategist Paula Land, is now available.

This edition updates and expands the first edition, focusing on the importance of the strategic, as well as the tactical, aspects of the content audit. It includes expanded chapters on planning and […]

Engineering Words: Communicating clearly in the workplace

Sharon Burton and Bonni Graham Gonzalez’s new book, Engineering Words: Communicating clearly in the workplace, is now available in both print and ebook editions from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and many other online retailers.

Over the course of a career, every engineer needs to communicate, in both written and oral form, with other engineers […]

Schematron: A Language for Validating XML

Erik Siegel’s new book, Schematron: A Language for Validating XML, is now available from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and many other online retailers.

Schematron is a validation language that checks XML documents against business rules. It extends the validation provided by languages such as Document Type Definitions (DTD), W3C XML Schema, and RELAX NG, […]

Understanding the (Content) Personalization Paradox

Learn about the need to standardize in order to personalize your content.

Thursday, July 21, at 8AM PT / 11AM ET

Join Patrick Bosek and Scott Abel for a chat with global content strategy expert and author of the The Personalization Paradox, Val Swisher, to discover the secret to personalizing content experiences at scale. You’ll […]

Second Edition of The Insider’s Guide to Technical Writing

The first edition of Krista Van Laan’s popular book The Insider’s Guide to Technical Writing has guided a generation of technical writers who are either starting out or seeking to take their skills to the next level.

This classic has now been updated for the technical writer of today. Today’s tech writers truly are […]