'The Stylus Scoop' Interviews XML Technology Luminary Dr. Michael Kay

Bedford, Mass. — Aug 4, 2004 — Stylus Studio (http://www.stylusstudio.com), the leading provider of powerful development tools for XML technologies including XML, XSL, XSLT, XML Schema, Web services, SQL/XML, and XQuery, today published an interview with Dr. Michael Kay on emerging XML technologies in its official newsletter, The Stylus Scoop. XML enthusiasts can read the complete text of the interview at the Stylus Studio website.

In the interview, conducted by Ivan Pedruzzi, Stylus Studio Senior Product Architect, and editor The Stylus Scoop, Dr. Kay provides an update on the exciting work being undertaken at the W3C on emerging XML technologies including XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, XQuery 1.0, and he shares his insights on how these technologies are likely to inter-operate and work alongside related XML technologies such as SQL/XML, and XML tools and components. Dr. Kay is the author of XSLT Programmer's Reference from Wrox Press, the XSLT reference standard. He is also the editor of the W3C's XSLT 2.0 specification, which is currently a Last Call Working Draft, and his Java-based Saxon XSLT and XQuery processors are two of the most successful and popular processors in the languages' histories. Michael recently formed his own company, Saxonica, and has launched a commercial version of Saxon with support for XML Schema.

This exclusive interview was produced for The Stylus Scoop, the official newsletter for the Stylus Studio XML developer community. The Stylus Scoop, read by thousands worldwide, features product news, XML tutorials, whitepapers, video demonstration highlights, case studies, events, contests, industry news, customer stories, interviews, and more! XML developers can subscribe to The Stylus Scoop, as well as view archived back-issues.

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