Mark C. Stiver is a Consulting Software Engineer with one of the world's largest suppliers of information services for the legal and business industry. He has more than eleven years of experience working on a wide variety of commercial, industrial, and military software development projects. Recently he completed a two-year effort developing an n-tier, distributed product using XML as the base protocol to integrate Windows desktop, Windows NT Server, and UNIX applications. Currently, he is involved in the design and development of XML based interfaces for integrating with large-scale systems.