WTML originated with the thoughts "I want to write a requirements specification in Word and apply formal requirements management techniques...BUT...I don't want to spend a lot of money buying, nor time learning, a heavy-weight requirements management tool."
The next thought was that anybody writing in Word may have table-like data in their documents. A markup language and processor would be the natural solution to enable them to extract that data - provided the language could be made simple enough and the processor could run on familiar tools. The result was WTML - a markup language and processor for Word/Excel with requirements management functions.
Appin Design has 30 years experience in systems engineering, quality management and IT project management within national and multinational companies and within the public sector.