I think basically everyone agrees that XML literals are a bad idea. There is a little more background described here: http://www.quora.com/Will-Scala-ever-remov

I think basically everyone agrees that XML literals are a bad idea. There is a little more background described here: http://www.quora.com/Will-Scala-ever-remove-XML-literals http://www.quora.com/Will-Scala-ever-remove-XML-literals