# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-howard-kay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:07:33.837Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-howard-kay"
name: "Michael Howard Kay"
slug: "michael-howard-kay"
description: "Michael Howard Kay is the editor of the W3C XSLT 2.0 and 3.0 language specifications for performing XML transformations, and the developer of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processing software."
tagline: "British computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_kay_nov_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.29
  momentum:             17.87128712871287
  historical:           4.60468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/michaelhkay"
    handle:    "michaelhkay"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.saxonica.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "ميخائيل هوارد كاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "ميخائيل هوارد كاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kay"
    title: "Michael Kay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Howard_Kay"
    title: "Michael Howard Kay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Howard_Kay"
    title: "Michael Howard Kay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1381603"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump