Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you could get away with: I don't think your second example is much at all like Lisp and I think to actually achieve somethi

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you could get away with: I don't think your second example is much at all like Lisp and I think to actually achieve something lispy, JSON would need some kind of symbol type, so you can do: ['Foo, ['Some Text', ['Bar, 'more text']]] Though, mix in attributes, and it's just a nightmare. After all, it's not like: '(Foo "Some text" (Bar "more text")) Or with an admittedly not-very-well-thought-out attribute: '(Foo "Some text" (Bar ([] (name "Baz")) "more text")) For: <Foo>Some text <Bar name="Baz">more text</Bar></Foo> Though there may be a better way of representing attributes....