Michael Kay

Michael H. Kay (born 11 October 1951) is the editor of the W3C specification of the XSLT 2.0 language for performing XML transformations, and the developer of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processing software. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and gained his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory under Maurice Wilkes. He spent over twenty years with the British computer manufacturer ICL, then worked for three years with ... more

Michael H. Kay (born 11 October 1951) is the editor of the W3C specification of the XSLT 2.0 language for performing XML transformations, and the developer of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processing software. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and gained his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory under Maurice Wilkes. He spent over twenty years with the British computer manufacturer ICL, then worked for three years with Software AG before forming his own company, Saxonica. He is the author of the book XSLT: Programmer's Reference by Wrox Press. He has authored several other books. He lives and works in Reading, England. He is a member of the XML Guild. less