Michael Kay
Michael Howard Kay (born October 11, 1951 in Hanover ) 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 the standardization of web technologies, for example in the XSL Working Group and the XQuery Working Group .
Kay is the co-author of the W3C specifications for the XSLT 2.0 programming language (as editor) and the XPath 2.0 query language . Michael Kay is known as the author of the XSLT and XQuery parser Saxon .
Kay graduated from Trinity College , Cambridge, and received a Ph. D. from the University of Cambridge in 1975 ; his doctoral supervisor was Maurice Wilkes . He worked for the computer manufacturer ICL for 20 years and for Software AG for three years ; after that he founded his own company Saxonica .
Michael Kay lives and works with his family in Reading , UK .
Fonts
- 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
Web links
- CV at Saxonica (PDF, English; 83 kB)
- Interview with Michael Kay on XML (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kay, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kay, Michael Howard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British programmer and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |