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I have no strong preference for either, so long as both of them convey the structured information I need.

Although tbh I'm preferring the XML in your example due to the lack of random quotes - why does (record need a quote, but (log doesn't?

The XML seems a lot more consistent.

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The example seems pretty weird. If it's just data there shouldn't be any quotes at all. The only purpose of quoting is to prevent evaluation, so I guess the idea must be that `log` is a function call to be evaluated, but then the example isn't even the same thing as the XML version (and there are still nested quotes inside the already quoted record).

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