Michael Howard Kay

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| name = Michael Kay

| birth_name = Michael Howard Kay

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1951|10|11}}{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117130929/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/MZsV46r4PIxfds3OjPs8uCBBnBU/appointments|archive-date=2017-11-17|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/MZsV46r4PIxfds3OjPs8uCBBnBU/appointments|website=companieshouse.gov.uk|publisher=Companies House|location=London|author=Anon|year=2017|title=Michael KAY: SAXONICA LIMITED (05032170)}}

| birth_place = Hannover, West Germany

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| nationality = British

| education = Salesian College, Farnborough

| fields = Software

| workplaces = {{Plainlist|

• Saxonica Ltd.{{cite web|url=https://www.saxonica.com/about/contact.xml|website=saxonica.com|author=Anon|year=2017|title= Saxonica Limited}}
• Software AG
• International Computers Limited}}

| alma_mater = University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)

| doctoral_advisor = Maurice Wilkes

| thesis_title = Data independence in database management systems

| thesis_year = 1976

| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.461558

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| known_for = Saxon XSLT

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| awards = ICL Fellow {{small|(1990)}}

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| spouse = Penelope M. Kay

| website = {{URL|saxonica.com}}

}}Michael Howard Kay (born 11 October 1951) is the editor of the W3C XSLT 2.0 and 3.0 language specifications for performing XML transformations,{{cite web |last1=Kay|first1=Michael |author-link = Michael Howard Kay| title = XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0 | url = http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/ | publisher = World Wide Web Consortium | access-date = 2006-05-10}} and the developer of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery{{Citation |last1=Kay |first1=Michael|year=2008 |author-link = Michael Howard Kay|title=Ten Reasons Why Saxon XQuery is fast |journal=IEEE Data Eng. Bull. |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=65–74 |url=http://sites.computer.org/debull/A08dec/saxonica.pdf |postscript=. }} processing software.{{Cite book | doi = 10.4242/BalisageVol7.Delpratt01| chapter = The Effects of Bytecode Generation in XSLT and XQuery| title = Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011| volume = 7| year = 2011| last1 = Delpratt | first1 = O. N. D. | last2 = Kay | first2 = M. | isbn = 978-1-935958-03-1}}{{Cite book | doi = 10.4242/BalisageVol5.Kay01| chapter = A Streaming XSLT Processor| title = Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010| volume = 5| year = 2010| last1 = Kay | first1 = M. | isbn = 978-1-935958-01-7}}{{Cite book | doi = 10.4242/BalisageVol3.Kay01| chapter = You Pull, I'll Push: On the Polarity of Pipelines| title = Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009| volume = 3| year = 2009| last1 = Kay | first1 = Michael | isbn = 978-0-9824344-2-0}}{{cite web|date=17 Jan 2022|title=Shift-M/51: Michael Kay about XSLT, XML, and software business: interview by Yegor Bugayenko|website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zt9oJtFKGw}}