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Michael Kay has been working in the XML field since 1997; he
became a member of the XSLWorking Group soon after the publication
of XSLT 1.0, and took over as editor of the XSLT 2.0 specification
in early 2001. He is also a member of the XQueryWorking Group, and
is a joint editor of the XPath 2.0 specification. He is well known
not only through previous editions of this book, but also as the
developer of the open-source Saxon product, a pioneering
implementation of XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0.
The author has recently formed his own company, Saxonica, to
provide commercial software and services building on the success of
the Saxon technology. Previously, he spent three years with
Software AG, working with the developers of the Tamino XML server,
a leading XQuery implementation. His background is in database
technology: after leaving the University of Cambridge with a Ph.D.,
he worked for many years with the (then) computer manufacturer ICL,
developing network, relational, and object-oriented database
software products as well as a text search engine, and held the
position of ICL Fellow.
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