Eve Maler is an XML Standards Architect in Sun's Web Technologies and Standards group. She currently specializes in developing standards and vocabularies in the areas of XML web services security and B2B and promoting standards adoption both in the industry at large and in Sun products and programs.

Eve was a charter member of the World Wide Web Consortium working group that created XML, and for two years coordinated all of Sun's W3C activities. Eve co-edited the second edition of the XML 1.0 Recommendation, the Note defining the XML Pipeline Definition Language, and several other specifications published by W3C. She is chair of the Schema Naming and Design Rules subgroup of the OASIS UBL (Universal Business Language) effort. Eve also co-founded, formerly chaired, and is the coordinating editor for the OASIS SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) committee.

Eve co-authored Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup, a book that is unique in providing a targeted methodology for DTD design. She also served for several years as maintainer of the popular DocBook DTD for software documentation.