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IIRC, it was Naggum that said the issue with XML is the useless distinction between elements and attributes, leading to countless discussion, bikeshedding etc etc instead of actually solving problems.

See the resources organized under XML and Scheme, by Oleg Kiselyov:

http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html

There is a Racket "package" (not quite a port) of SXML and SXSLT:

http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/sxml/

Tho in its infancy, Kawa scheme can "paper over" some of the XML in Android dev[0].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Android-view-construction....