DTDs mercifully aside, there's this: http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/SXML.html http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/SXML.html I'm not sure what example in this thread you c

DTDs mercifully aside, there's this: http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/SXML.html http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/SXML.html I'm not sure what example in this thread you consider to be throwing information away - in a case like <Term term="slick"> where the attribute name is clearly redundant and exists only to satisfy the syntax, nothing is lost in the transformation to (term "slick"