{"id":397,"date":"2015-05-01T08:41:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T08:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:34:59","slug":"creative-words","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?page_id=397","title":{"rendered":"Creative Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

My company, Creative Words,<\/em> started out as my entry point into technical writing, translations and markup technology in the early 90s.\u00a0My company was part of\u00a0GNOSIS-Gruppen,<\/em>\u00a0alongside some colleagues while working for various Ericsson companies, and for a time I’d never have presented myself as Ari Nordstr\u00f6m at Creative Words<\/em>, only as Ari Nordstr\u00f6m at GNOSIS<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Then the IT bubble burst and we were all employed by others. I was at Information & Media<\/em>, Crepido Systems<\/em>, Sigma<\/em>, and\u00a0Condesign<\/em>,<\/em>\u00a0where I spent seven years designing document management systems and writing schemas, XSLT, XQuery, XProc and other things starting with ‘X’.<\/p>\n

In 2015,\u00a0I revived\u00a0Creative Words, now<\/em>\u00a0specialising in markup technologies and XML expertise. I spent more than two and a half years working as a Content Architect for\u00a0LexisNexis<\/em>, one of the world’s largest legal publishers.<\/p>\n

At LexisNexis,<\/em>\u00a0I got to work with lots of markup people like myself, but also with most XML technologies out there (we even invented some new ones ourselves). I did a lot of\u00a0legal commentary<\/em>, which is pretty much what it sounds like. For example, I converted the venerable 104-volume\u00a0Halsbury’s Laws of England<\/em>\u00a0(Wikipedia describes Halsbury’s as “a uniquely comprehensive encyclopaedia of law [that] provides the only complete narrative statement of law in England and Wales”) from RTF to XML, and I wrote pipelines to produce\u00a0consolidated tables of cases, statutes and indices<\/em>. I learned a lot about English legislation and their legal system.<\/p>\n

I spent two years\u00a0working for a Danish legal publisher,\u00a0Karnov Group<\/em>, merging Karnov’s Swedish legislation libraries with those of recent acquisition\u00a0Norstedts juridik<\/em>‘s, and converting legal commentary in MS Word format to DocBook XML. I also introduced XProc pipelining to their publishing processes, always a win.<\/p>\n

Then followed 4.5 years with the PLM company CAD-IT UK, a specialist provider for Siemens. I did a lot of ATA-, DITA- and S1000D-related work for the aerospace and automotive industries, with some SGML to sweeten the deal. As CAD-IT wanted a portal application for their DITA solutions around Siemens Teamcenter, I also designed an XML-first portal for technical publications, now in use in the automotive industry.<\/p>\n

I’ve contributed to\u00a0the XProc 3.0 standard\u00a0by co-chairing the W3C XProc Next community\u00a0group, and I’m heavily involved in various markup conferences around the globe.<\/p>\n

All in all, markup is not a bad way of making a living.<\/p>\n\n\n

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My company, Creative Words, started out as my entry point into technical writing, translations and markup technology in the early 90s.\u00a0My company was part of\u00a0GNOSIS-Gruppen,\u00a0alongside some colleagues while working for various Ericsson companies, and for a time I’d never have presented myself as Ari Nordstr\u00f6m at Creative Words, only as Ari Nordstr\u00f6m at GNOSIS. Then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}