Michael Howard Kay

Michael Howard Kay ( born October 11, 1951 in Hannover ) is a British programmer and author in the field of Extensible Markup Language (XML). He is a member of several working groups of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C) for standardization of Web technologies, for example in the XSL Working Group and the XQuery Working Group.

Kay is co-author of the W3C specifications for the programming language XSLT 2.0 ( as the publisher ) and the query language XPath 2.0. Michael Kay is known as the author of XSLT and XQuery parser Saxon.

Kay graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge and obtained his doctorate in 1975 for Ph. D. at the University of Cambridge; his doctor father was Maurice Wilkes. He worked 20 years at the computer manufacturer ICL and three years at Software AG; thereafter he founded his own company Saxonica.

Michael Kay lives and works with his family in Reading, UK.

Writings

  • XPath 2.0 Programmers Reference, Wiley, Indianapolis, 2004 ISBN 0-7645-6910-4
  • XSLT 2.0 Programmers Reference, Wiley, Indianapolis, 2004 ISBN 0-7645-6909-0
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