Welcome
Welcome to XMLgrrl.com! I’m your host, Eve Maler. On this site you’ll find electronic flotsam and jetsam produced by me, including my blog, Pushing String.
(Yes, that’s a cartoon, though based on a real photo of my head from, oh, 1998 or so.)
Please send comments on this site or other personal email to eve -at- xmlgrrl.com. My email address at work is eve.maler -at- sun.com. Note: I will assume that any mail sent to the first address is safe for me to blog about, unless you inform me otherwise.
(That’s a business portait of me, done in 2002 in the just-shy-of-Glamour-shots mold. If you need a print-ready size, drop me a line; if you need to know accurately what I look like now, try my Flickr page, which is likely to have some recent shots.)
Here’s a bio I sometimes use for speaking engagements:
Eve Maler is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems, developing interoperability strategies and leading partner engagements related to web services, security, and identity.
Eve was one of the inventors of the Extensible Markup Language (XML), a key technology for worldwide electronic communications. She has also made major leadership, technical, and educational contributions to other successful standards, such as Project Concordia, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), the Liberty Alliance, the Universal Business Language (UBL), and DocBook.
Eve speaks frequently on technical subjects, and for several years served as chair of the Web Services and Identity track of the annual XML Summer School held at University of Oxford.
Eve co-authored Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup, a book that provided a unique methodology for information analysis and SGML schema design. Eve’s blog, Pushing String at xmlgrrl.com, touches on topics both technical and whimsical.
(Not part of my standard bio!) Some of my other interests are cross-stitching and singing and playing bluesy-funky rock ‘n’ roll.
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