TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. Intended audience is developers who convert documents from XML to TeX.

<cmd name="documentclass">
  <opt>12pt</opt>
  <parm>letter</parm>
</cmd>

\documentclass[12pt]{letter}

One of the main benefits of TeXML usage is automatic translation of the TeX special symbols.

<TeXML>\section{No&#xa0;break}</TeXML>

$\backslash$section\{No~break\}

The TeXML processor supports different output encodings and escapes out-of-encoding chars automatically.

<TeXML>&#x422;&#x435;&#x425;</TeXML>

\cyrchar\CYRT \cyrchar\cyre \cyrchar\CYRH 

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Rationalities and objectives of TeXML were presented by Douglas Lovell at the Tex Users Group meeting in 1999. His paper is available online on the TUG site: "TeXML: Typesetting XML with TeX" (PDF, 180 Kb). He also wrote TeXMLatte, a Java implementation of TeXML by IBM alphaWorks, but now his realization "has been retired".

The new TeXML processor is written in Python and is published under GPL. Software can be downloaded from the SourceForge project files area.