====== Using TeX to read SGML or XML directly ======


[[FAQ-context|ConTeXt (mark IV)]] can process some
*ML, to produce typeset output directly.  Details of what can
(and can not) be done, are discussed in 
[[http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XML|The ConTeXt WIKI]].
ConTeXt is probably the system of choice for (La)TeX users who
also need to work in XML (and friends).  (Note that ConTeXt
mark IV requires [[FAQ-luatex|LuaTeX]], and should
therefore be regarded as experimental, though many people //do//
use it successfully).

Older systems also manage, using no more than (La)TeX macro
programming, to process XML and the like.  David Carlisle's
[[ctanpkg>xmltex|xmltex]] is the prime example; it offers a solution
for typesetting XML files, and is still in active (though not
very widespread) use.

One use of a TeX that can typeset XML files is as a backend
processor for XSL formatting objects, serialized as XML.
Sebastian Rahtz's PassiveTeX uses [[ctanpkg>xmltex|xmltex]] to
achieve this end.

However, modern usage would proceed via XSL or XSLT2 to
produce a formattable version.


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