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There are several decent Scala-esque alternatives to the built-in XML support (with has many things broken about it). For instance: Anti-XML http://anti-xml.org/ and Scala-Scales: http://code.google.com/p/scala-scales/ they can't replace the functionality of the built-in support (need to alter parser/compiler for that), but are considerably more sane than the default functionality in scala.xml