<i>&gt; There is no sane way that you could represent</i><p>I think you&#x27;re wrong, namely because of arrays.
Can you tell me how you&#x27;d represent
[1, 2, 3, 4] in xml?<p>If you think this example is contrived, please compare the dependency sections of a clojure project.clj vs that of a Java pom.xml