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Michael Kay is the author of the "XSLT Programmer's Reference" from Wrox Press, the standard reference work on XSLT, as well as many other best-selling XML books. He is also the editor of the W3C XSLT 2.0 specification, which as of November 2005 was in Candidate Recommendation status, and his Java-based Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor is one of the most successful and popular XSLT processors in the language's history. The branch of Saxon supporting XSLT 1.0 is currently at release 6.5.3, and XML developers will know that the 8.x branch of Saxon includes complete support for XSLT 2.0, XML-Schema aware processing support, and most notably, support for XQuery processing in Saxon. Michael recently formed his own company, Saxonica, and has launched a commercial version of Saxon with support for XML Schema. This interview with Michael Kay covers the following topics:

• An overview of Dr. Kay's work as a member of several W3C core XML working groups
• An update on the ongoing status of XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0
• An explanation of the key differences between XQuery and XSLT 2.0
• Dr. Kay's vision of the kinds of applications that are idealy handled using XQuery technologies.
• When to use XSLT versus XQuery
• The latest product news related to Dr. Kay's Saxon XSLT and XQuery Processor
• An overview of XML Schema support in XQuery and XSLT

This exclusive interview was originally featured in the Stylus Scoop XML newsletter.