Some of this (avoiding pretty printing, mainly) is just dealing with XML's insanity. The rest is pretty solid advice, but fairly obvious for the most part. Then

Some of this (avoiding pretty printing, mainly) is just dealing with XML's insanity. The rest is pretty solid advice, but fairly obvious for the most part. Then again, I've already done a lot of Scheme programming, understand common sense, and I read Steve Yegge's The Emacs Problem, So I already looked at XML as a tree structure, and crawling a pre-existing tree to turn it into XML is just the most natural way to deal with XML in Lisps.